"Will they play the anthem?” I asked.
“The which?”
‘The Star-Spangled Banner.’”
“Oh, the national ballad. What for? This is a ball match, not the Senate.”
At least one bit of jingoistic idiocy hadn’t yet lodged in the national psyche, I thought.
-- from If I Never Get Back by Darryl Brock, published in 1989 and set during baseball's infancy in the late 1860s. Just like his character Sam Fowler, Brock was ahead of his time.
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