The Art and Eternity

3,000 strikeouts: a fleeting moment in a legendary career.

Baseball, in its purest essence, is a sport of accumulation. Not the strident accumulation of records that fall with a crash. It's much more than that. These are the little stories that are built pitch by pitch, strikeout by strikeout, season after season, until one day, almost without anyone noticing, the number has become so large that it no longer fi…