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Do you consider Baseball to be America's Pastime?
With the start of the season just about to begin, which includes all sorts of pageantry; including the President throwing out the first pitch, the national anthems, the armed forces fly overs for home openers, etc. is baseball still considered America's Pastime?
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- no one else wants baseball except for japan but thats because it was forced on them. Dominicans and Latins dont really like baseball but it beats crossing the border to get im the US. I'm only half serious on that one.
- baseball s engrained in our society and has a rich tradition of heroes and role models.
The downfall of the sport though will be the players themselves. These astronomical guaranteed contracts are changing the game in terrible ways. When i was a kid i could see a game and eat well for $10. Today that does even cover parking! Fans and owners have to unite and take back the game.
Another downfall is that the number of black kids playing little league is dwindling. Maybe its because they cant show as many tatoos. Jackie robinson is turning over in his grave. The game is full of whites and latins now and the few japanese.
Basketball is taking all kids and football is taking all the tv revenues.
And if you look at it, those sports have more tatoos. It must be the tatoos.
Plus, Baseball worked so brilliantly as a radio sport, which made it accessible to everyone. And since it was accessible to everyone; everyone, regardless of race, religion, age, or political affiliation, could relate to one another via Baseball. And it was a subject that could tie and bind people together, rather than fraction.
I always loved the James Earl Jones quote as Terrance Mann from Field of Dreams, "The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. Ohhhhhhhh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come."