Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Photo by the Author, PNC Park, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2, 2014 Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin used to come home from the ballpark after watching the Brooklyn Dodgers and blurt out the results to her father. He would chide her that she had to tell the story of the game first, and only after that could she reveal the result, to convey the tension that the people at Ebbets Field felt before they knew how things would turn out, when the outcome was still in doubt.