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makes me think that world-class tennis players might as well be triathletes.  Joker and Rafa going 6 hours of explosive athletics and sprinting was crazy.  Trust me, there's no way Griffey EVER did that.  Baseball players aren't FIT.  They are conditioned for the sport they play, which involves a lot of standing around. 
Baseball has a lot in common with golf:  An incredibly hard endeavor made easier by a certain amount of grace and the ability to adjust a swing to the conditions presented.
It's more athletic simply because nobody in golf has to dive anywhere (unless someone shouts 'fore' anyway) or fight to prevent the other person's shot.  Baseball requires an insane amount of calculations in a very short span, and the ability to replicate motions that have become drilled instinct so perfectly that all those calculations can be performed without thinking about them.
Grace = hard work x purpose.  Whether it's martial arts or lumberjacking, grace takes thousands of hours of work to make one incredibly hard action seem simple and effortless.
That's why I love baseball.  In no other sport do two people square off in quite the same display of one-swing-takes-all competition.
Except that in baseball even when you hit it perfectly you can still lose.
It's a wonderful game. :) When's the first telecast again?
~G