Stephen L. Carter, Columnist

Take Me Out to a Quieter Ball Game

Stadiums that play fake crowd noise aren't fooling anyone.

September 18, 2015 at 4:40 PM UTC

Stephen L. Carter is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a professor of law at Yale University and author of “Invisible: The Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster.”

After fake noise, what's next?
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A couple of weeks ago, a friend invited me to accompany him to a baseball game in Nationals Park. The game was a thriller. The visiting Atlanta Braves were ahead going into the bottom of the ninth inning, but the Washington Nationals tied the score with two outs, then won in the 10th on a pinch-hit home run by a rookie.

Loads of fun.