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Alexandre Dumas’ romantic novel The 3 Musketeers which was written in 1844 about 17th century France is a masterpiece. This novel is really a thing of beauty about three devoted Musketeers who served to protect King Louis XIII and the Country of France and the government from being overthrown by an evil plot through the scheming Cardinal Richelieu.

Richelieu, a lasting high positioned official had The Musketeers disbanded to weaken the King’s protective force. Ultimately, The Cardinal’s scheme ultimately ended up being to establish an alliance with Britain.

One of them devious plan by The Cardinal was the murder of King Louis XIII. Upon the King’s death Cardinal Richelieu would ascend towards the throne and become King of France in the alliance agreement with Britain. This can be a swashbuckling story around three of the greatest from the disbanded Musketeers who are joined by a fourth desire to be Musketeer swordsman whose father had previously served in the King’s service as a Musketeer.

I won't go into much more detail of this classic, but when you see clearly to the end you may expect a win win experience and most likely will seem like the home team has knocked one out of the park towards the bottom of the ninth to win the sport.

Because the plot unraveled in the novel, some being factually based history and other being legend, based on my understanding made for me some very enjoyable reading.

This book was a double whammy for me for the reason that I along with enjoying and being intrigued by the authors plot I was in a position to intertwine my love of sports and see the spirit of athleticism being unveiled to me at the same time.

Take for instance the motto of The King’s Musketeers being “ONE FOR ALL and all sorts of FOR ONE” is the same that should be for our athletes of old and today’s modern athlete.

A baseball player “worth his salt” recognizes that his individual talents aren't nearly enough to win the coveted pennant, despite the fact that at times he might win the game.