Picture this. It’s that warm sunny day. It’s the American Flag flying high over the score board. It’s the smell of newly cut grass and hot roasted peanuts. It’s the cap and jersey you’re wearing. Maybe it’s the hot dog you’re eating. It’s that feeling of being a kid again, no matter how old you are. It’s being in the middle of the stadium with thousands of fans. Its knowing your all there to do the same thing. And that’s to watch your favorite team play some baseball. And I quote from Ernie Harwell’s baseball is speech, “Baseball is the President tossing out the first ball of the season and a pudgy schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm. A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball. And so is the big, fat guy with a bulbous nose running home one of his 714 home runs.” Baseball: an original American sport. All the things America represents, baseball brings together.
When I say baseball is an original American sport, I literally mean it. It was first created and played within the states. The first game was played by a man named Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York in 1839. Over 150 years ago, Doubleday created all of the rules to the game of baseball and since then it has continued to be one of the biggest sports played in America. It is no where near as large any where else in the world compared to what it is here in the states. Baseball was born and raised American.
Baseball has also been given many different names to represent America. The most commonly known is that is it “America’s Pastime.” Once it was invented, baseball became the most popular thing for kids to do. These kids didn’t have T.V., computers or anything that we have today, so they played baseball to literally pass time. This is where the name for “boys of summer” started also. Yet amazingly, today, in 2007, so many people/fans, have gone out to watch or play baseball. It continues to hold the name of “America’s pastime.”...