Is our romance with the ‘boys of summer’ waning? | Opinion

By Alan J. Steinberg On the day my father, Melvin “Moshe” Steinberg was born, October 7, 1925, my Polish Jewish immigrant grandfather, Archie Steinberg, the leading kosher butcher in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill, was attending Game One of the World Series between the visiting Washington Senators and the Pittsburgh Pirates. Clearly, it would seem, I have a baseball family heritage to follow! And for the first 50 years of my life, to a large extent, I built my life around baseball. But I no longer follow the game. And I am not alone. This year, I decided to watch the All-Star game to see what was …

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