Whicker: Baseball games aren’t too long – they’re too slow

Susan Jacoby’s book, “Why Baseball Matters,” can be read comfortably within a typical nine-inning span.
Most nights, it would be more entertaining than the game of statues MLB has given us. It’s cheaper, too.
Baseball matters differently to everyone. To Jacoby, it matters because of unpredictability, context and its defiance of today’s breakneck pace. She loves baseball’s ability to “encourage our natural gregariousness,” as Bill Veeck said, and ho