John Rawls and Harry Kalven: Six Reasons Why Baseball Is the Best of All Games. I’ve been thinking as I’ve watched some televised baseball recently about number five, 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. TV doesn’t do this very well. The camera often has to focus either on the runner or the fielder.