Added 7.10.18. Everything you thought you knew about the history of baseball – our “national pastime” – is wrong. Or, at least, quite a bit of it. That is the upshot of a close look at the sport’s long arc in U.S. popular history by Mitchell Nathanson, a professor at the Villanova University School of Law, and author of “A People’s History Of Baseball.” For more of the play-by-play and color commentary, dig in to this 2012 interview of Nathanson, by Milt.