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Sports, let’s face it, are a big-city thing. For all the talk about large- and small-market franchises — sure to be the center of the labor battle looming over Major League Baseball — they’re all big markets. Only a New Yorker could consider Milwaukee, a city of more than 560,000, “small.” I grew up in a Midwestern farm town of 15,000 people, and St. Louis, to my 10-year-old eyes, might as well have been Jakarta, Tokyo or Mexico City: so vast it seemed infinite. I was in a big city.

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