​​​​Softball and Wildfires

​​​​Softball and Wildfires
Cydney Sanders of the Oklahoma Sooners rounds second base after hitting a home run during the fifth inning against the Florida State Seminoles in Oklahoma City on June 8, 2023. Ian Maule/Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
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Both the sport of softball and the devastation of wildfires were prominent in the news last week. The University of Oklahoma Sooners won their third consecutive national title, finishing the season on an astonishing 53-game win streak and with a final record of 61–1. Meanwhile, farther north, air quality was so bad as a result of forest fires in Canada that major league baseball games were canceled in cities such as New York and Philadelphia.

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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