The best parts of my article at The New York Sun today are probably the title — The Day Derek Jeter Tipped Off President Bush on How To Throw a Perfect Pitch — And Other Stories of the Damn Yankees — and the video embedded in the text.
In other words, the parts I didn’t write. But I think it will be worth your time to go there for the video alone.
I can’t quite connect the article to a Jewish current issue. But one of the themes of the article — that baseball captures some insights into life — is perhaps borne out by some prior JCI baseball-related posts that may be worth re-reading, as yet another season begins: