Is Baseball Broken?

In 1965 Sandy Koufax threw a perfect game, finished the regular season with a 2.04 earned-run average and sat out the opening of the World Series because he wouldn’t pitch on Yom Kippur; Roberto Clemente led the majors with a .329 batting average and Willie Mays slugged 52 home runs. It was the year that Tony Bennett and Sammy Davis Jr. each crooned “If I Ruled the World,” with its promise that “every voice would be a voice to be heard.”