Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.

I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.

Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.

I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.