San Francisco Giants Rebuild Themselves After Getting Steamrolled by the Rockies

"The one constant through all the years...has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game. It's a part of our past...It reminds us of all that once was good and could be again."—James Earl Jones, "Field of Dreams"   There's a reason Darth Vader's monologue in the baseball classic makes a lot of grown men cry. Jones' words work in the literal sense as well as a metaphor for the only game pretty enough to be played on a diamond. Since baseball established itself in America's consciousness so early in the country's history, it—more than any other sport except for possibly boxing—has seen the nation go through many evolutionary and revolutionary changes. That is the literal truth in the famous scene from "Field of Dreams." But if you want an example of their figurative v...