The uproar here is a bit of retailing inside baseball that the American consumer may not fully appreciate.

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It sounds very inside baseball, but the partnership means that millions of students from around the world can now receive a free education in their preferred language.

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In 2006, filmmaker Kerry Yo Nakagawa sent him a rough cut of "American Pastime, " a low-budget movie about Japanese American internees who played baseball inside the camps.

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This is a little inside-ad-tech-baseball, so bear with me.

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Though an epilogue examines tactical what-ifs, no effort is made to say what it all meant, and the whole story reads rather like an inside view of a tight World Series baseball championship.

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