Baseball: Newton's Cure for the Insane

Pitchers and catchers have reported to training camp, which means that baseball season is unofficially under way. Now is as good a time as any to remember the pioneering program of Newton Technical High School, which, in 1911, used baseball to cure insanity. Or, more to the point, the school "put [baseball] to practical use In curing backward minds and incorrigible students." But be warned. "The sane often give manifestation of violent insanity while the Insane seem rational while under the Influence of baseball." Read the whole article here. [Neat Neat Neat]