NOT A LOT of people have heard of a baseball player named Charlie "Chuckles" Nagy. He was a pitcher for the Cleveland Indians in the 1990s, and despite having a productive career he is probably best known for giving up the winning run in extra innings of Game 7 of the 1997 World Series, which resulted in the Florida Marlins becoming champions.
I was in second grade at the time and was forced to endure this conflagration. It was through the ups and downs - mostly downs - of being a sports fan that I was taught a valuable lesson about life: Quite simply, the world can be unfair, and success is far more elusive than anyone is willing to admit to a seven-year-old.
Many people, however disillusioned by the corruption and greed endemic in many professional sports leagues, can underestimate the lessons learned through these pastimes. They forget that somewhere beneath the steroids and millions of dollars lies a children's game.
The news is fraught with stories about drug abuse, steroid use and, most importantly, greed. When athletes make millions per game, the common maxim of "it's just a game" is lost in the shuffle and we often succumb to an intense cynicism about the wholesomeness of the games of our youth.
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