SPECIAL: Here’s a last-minute addition to the C-SPAN schedule that’s bound to be an absolute, and absolutely welcome and much-needed, anomaly: a televised political event that is bound to leave viewers across the political spectrum equally moved, inspired and united. It’s a charity baseball game, pure and simple. Except that today, it’s even more pure because it is so simple. The Congressional Baseball Game for Charity has been played, in one way or another, for about a century, with Republicans and Democrats taking to the baseball diamond to compete as different teams, playing the same game for a united cause. (And playing wearing the uniforms of their respective colleges, which is a nice and very colorful touch.) It’s a spirit that may have been lost or largely forgotten in Congress, and in the White House, of late – but that baseball analogy will not be lost tonight, as the two teams take the field the day after Republicans practicing for this game were fired upon by a gunman, whose motive may have been tied to political hatred. Several people were shot, including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who remains in critical condition as I write this Thursday morning. But his fellow members of congress have opted to play tonight’s game as scheduled, to show solidarity and refuse to be cowed by the threat of violence. Played at Nationals Park, it’s a much more resonant and important game today than it was two days ago – and C-SPAN has decided to make it available to the nation. Please take advantage of the opportunity.