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In a quiet pocket of America, a small group of men preserves the history and legacy of one of our great sports and cultural pastimes: baseball.

Lewes, Delaware, is a sleepy town located on the Delaware Bay just north of the popular beach destination Rehoboth Beach. Over 3,000 people call it home. But it is also home to a baseball league of men in their 20s to 70s who play the game according to 19th-century rules.

It’s not the game we have all come to love. It’s more like stick ball, the way the game was originally played before it grew in popularity in the 20th century and developed modern rules. Fielders don’t use gloves, for example. Pitchers throw underhand. Batters are “strikers” and strictly use wooden bats. Foul balls are not strikes. Umpires do not even call balls or strikes unless a batter is not swinging at a hittable pitch.

“It’s definitely baseball. It moves faster. It’s just a bat and ball. You just get out there and play,” Mike DiPaolo, president of the Lewes Base Ball Club, told a local outlet. DiPaolo’s team played games against the Rising Sun Base Ball Club and the Elkton Eclipse Base Ball Club in August.

“I want to say it’s pure, but that sounds corny. It looks so deceptively simple,” he said.

Not only do they play by 19th-century rules, but they also dress like 19th-century players. The uniforms are baggy, with pants held up with leather belts. The caps have short, stubby brims. They all look a bit dorky, but it’s a charming dorkiness. It fills you with nostalgia.

These players are not just eccentric hobbyists. They are having fun, of course, but they are doing something incredibly important. Like historians, they are preserving the legacy of baseball, its rich history in the Maryland and Delaware region, and a bygone era when nearly every town had a baseball club and competed against each other.

The world today feels endlessly churning. The internet, social media, AI videos, entertainment, online sports gambling, prediction markets — all of these things make it seem as if we live in Year Zero. The eternal present. We are so bombarded with information, so glued to our screens at virtually all hours of the day, that we rarely take time even to acknowledge the past, let alone study it deeply. We don’t just forget the history we learned in school; we forget that there even is history.

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Ben Shapiro is very good at talking. He is not so good at listening.

As the neocon Republican establishment and populist right traded shots over America’s affordability crisis – which has since been dubbed “Burritogate” – Shapiro jumped into the fray to complain about Americans worried about rising food prices.

“Current ‘common good conservative’ inflation messaging: $20 burritos are a human right but also every serious methodology for making them cheaper (i.e. kill the tariffs, break the unions, and deregulate the food supply chain) isn’t America First, so we need to complain a lot about how America is cooked and then surrender to Iran,” Shapiro said.

For a takedown of Shapiro’s argument, look no further than this definitive Burritogate inflation guide from the Daily Caller’s Will Upton.

But I want to address something else about Shapiro: his failure to understand Americans.

Shapiro seems to consistently mock those of us who are less than impressed by his piercing “logic” and surfeit of cold, hard “facts.”

Take this clip from mid-April, when Shapiro misled his audience by falsely claiming the Strait of Hormuz had been pried open by U.S. military might.

“Remember when they said we would never be able to open the strait? ... Guess what? Guess what? [Iran] opened the strait,” he said at the time. “They stopped messing around in the strait because they didn’t have the forward operating capacity. Their navy was, in fact, at the bottom of the sea.”

He was basically telling Americans skeptical of the war and the administration’s claims that Iran’s navy had been “obliterated” that they were idiots for ever asking questions in the first place.

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In late April, President Trump was asked about Gannon Ken Van Dyke, a U.S. special forces soldier arrested for allegedly placing bets on the Nicolás Maduro raid using insider knowledge. Van Dyke, who “participated in the planning and execution” of the raid, wagered several bets totaling $33,034 on the prediction market platform Polymarket as to the timing of Maduro’s downfall and ended up pocketing $409,000 once the wagers hit, according to the DOJ.

The president, in typical fashion, had a blunt answer.

“Well, you know, the whole world, unfortunately, has become somewhat of a casino,” Trump responded. “And you look at what’s going on all over the world, in Europe and every place, they’re doing these betting things. I was never much in favor of it. I don’t like it conceptually, but it is what it is.”

“No, I think that I’m not happy with any of that stuff,” Trump continued. “But they have all these different sites. They have predictive markets. It’s a crazy world. It’s a much different world than it was.”

He’s right.

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