The Importance Of Baseball In Baseball

The sport that evokes more nostalgia among Americans than any other is baseball. So many people play the game as children that it has become known as “the National Pastime”. It is also a democratic game. Unlike football or basketball, baseball can be played well by average people.

The genius of our institution is democratic and so is baseball. It is understood that America’s culture is important to the nation’s health as American politics. And that the sport is an important cultural ingredient. So, consider the many reasons why baseball deserves to be the national pastime, the game especially suited to our democracy.

First democracy celebrates ordinary people. Of course baseball players have extraordinary talents, but most players resemble ordinary people. As a wise baseball man once said: “To play baseball, you do not need to be seven feel tall or seven feet wide.” And baseball like America, has a strong independent judiciary, the umpires. In fact, baseball is, in one regard better than the rest of America. In

It is a game of the half loaf. In baseball, as in democracy, no one gets everything they want. Essentially all 30 teams go to Spring Training knowing they are going to win 60 games and lose 60 games. They play the long season to sort out the other 42 games. And every team also knows if it wins only 10 out of every 20 games, it is obviously mediocre. But if it wins 11 out of every 20 games, it will win almost 90 games and have a good chance of playing in the post-season. Which is why in baseball, as in the life of a competitive free society, little differences, ultimately, make an enormous difference. Baseball also is, as America is, both about individualism and cooperation. The heart of the game is the one-on-one battle between the batter and the pitcher. But baseball also requires teamwork, on offense, to move runners another 90 feet and on defense, to make 27