Late Harvard philosopher John Rawls wrote a letter in 1981 describing, in 6 points, why baseball is the best game ever.  Read the whole thing here.

Here's my favorite (emphasis mine):

Fifth: baseball is the only game where scoring is not done with the ball, and this has the remarkable effect of concentrating the excitement of plays at different points of the field at the same time. Will the runner cross the plate before the fielder gets to the ball and throws it to home plate, and so on.

[Via Kottke]