[jshfast]

Hey everybody, I'm doing research so I would really appreciate some good stuff here. Why do you think baseball is america's favorite past time?

[Mid-depth_Reporter]

Baseball leaves us with memorable names and memories. Very few people don't know Babe Ruth. Baseball has been around since the late 19th century. It helped give Americans something to take their minds off the great depression. Plus, baseball just seems to contain a lot of players who the common person can relate to, because, well, a lot of the players are common men. (Excluding a few of the overly-egotistical, and those with exaggerated salaries.)

For the most part, jshfast, baseball has just been there all these years, and really hasn't changed too much. Despite steroids, scandals and other serious issues that threatend to decrease its legacy, baseball seems to be the purest sport. From the sparkling eyes of little kids, wishing and hoping to play the game, to the rough, wrinkled faces of individuals well into their years, nearing death, waiting for a team to win one last World Series.

[Lefty Noob]

Welcome to the forums here at GoTeamsGo.com, jshfast. Interesting research topic you've got there. The one thing I love about baseball above all other sports is that its so enjoyable, no matter whose playing it or at what level. I'm just as happy watching high school, college or Frontier League baseball as I am watching the Big Leaguers play. The game itself is the true star, not the players playing it. Not sure I could say I feel that way about any other game.

[CityofBrotherlyShove]

Baseball is the one sport, more than any other, that our fathers' fathers' fathers passed down to us. When the Red Sox won the world series, fans cried for their fathers and grandfathers who turned them on to the team but never lived to see them win a WS. Our parents' generation can remember falling asleep with a radio under their pillow, listening to the baseball game. They remember going to games with their fathers, and in turn, they take their own children to games, and so on.

Baseball is America's game because, more than any other sport, it is about tradition, and young fans and players respect the tradition of the players who came before.

Baseball connects the generations at a time when so many other factors divide them.

[legend]

All you need to do is watch Field of Dreams and listen to the speech at the end by James Earl Jones about how baseball and the history of the country are tied together. When you were a kid at recess, you played baseball. Baseball begins every year in the spring and carries throughout the summer into the fall; it brings a sense of rejuvenation each year, a fresh start. We are ready for winter to end, baseball is so connected to the end of winter that it is looked forward to like the arrival of the first flowers pushing through the soil. Your team, no matter how bad, is at the starting gate with all the others, with the same record to begin a new year with.
The goosebump moments in baseball are too numerous to mention, from Walter Johnson winning a World Series on a bad hop single in 1924 to Grover Cleveland Alexander striking out Tony Lazzeri with the bases loaded in 1926 to Ruth's "called shot" in 1932 all the way to the Red Sox comeback of 2004. Baseball is like the girl you had a crush on when you were back in grammar school. No matter what she looks like today, in your minds eye she is still the most beautiful thing you have ever seen!

Because 65% of americans' favorite sport is Baseball.