Major League Baseball is running an ad which uses an excerpt from the movie “Field of Dreams” to indicate that baseball is the constant while the rest of America is being continually destroyed and rebuilt. That’s a nice thought, but is it true? Back before World War 2 Dizzy Dean once pitched both ends of a double header and won both games. That figures to about 18 innings on the same afternoon. Today the best pitchers in the majors may go an entire career without pitching a single complete game. Managers are delighted if their pitcher sticks around for five or ...