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Talking Sports: Time is of the essence

There are a lot of cliches in sports. One of the oldest is that “records are made to be broken.” But there are also those records which many or even most of us think will never be touched.

Baseball seems the most numbers crazy of the four most popular American professional sports. Baseball fans love the numbers. Me too.

When I was a little boy I would pour through almanacs and record books scanning the statistics. A lot of the records I came across then still stand today. Yet after seeing a number of records fall over the years, I consider no hallowed number beyond reach. It may not h...

 

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