Connection to Baseball: Emmy award-winning sportscaster and one of baseball's most highly respected announcers

Pros: His book, Fair Ball: A Fan's Case for Baseball, details the game's myriad problems and lays out a detailed plan to solve them

Cons: Notions on how to save the baseball may be a tad unrealistic, for example: "Players and owners alike need to be less willing to sacrifice the game's essence on the altar of commercialism."