George Will is my favorite baseball writer

George Will is a master at politics and baseball. What can you say about a great conservative and baseball fan? Is there a better baseball book than Men at Work?:

"A classic that may even stand up as the best baseball book of the '90's." Chicago Tribune.

Today, Will writes another thoughtful baseball opinion. See BASEBALL'S GOLDEN AGE :

"Great Yankee teams have been good for baseball. In the 1930s, one of every four tickets sold to an American League game was for a game involving the Yankees.

This year, when the Yankees were drawing 4,200,518 fans to Yankee Stadium, they also played in front of 3,080,290 million on the road.

But improved competitive balance is one reason why, for the third consecutive year, MLB set an attendance record (76,043,902), and why today is MLB's golden age, even west of the Hudson."

It's hard to disagree with Mr. Will! However, I do think that baseball needs a more equitable financial system. Today, Tampa Bay and Kansas City can not compete. It turns off fans and baseball loses. The answer may be to eliminate franchises. It may come to that.