"“In baseball, democracy shines its clearest,” he later wrote. “The only race that matters is the race to the bat. The creed is the rulebook; color merely something to distinguish one team’s uniform from another.”"
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play beginning when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball that a player on the batting team, called the batter, tries to hit with a bat. The objective of the offensive team is to hit the ball into t
"I said: "Baseball is the hurrah game of the republic!" He was hilarious: "Thats beautiful: the hurrah game! well — its our game: thats the chief fact in connection with it: Americas game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere — belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life."
Baseball"In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing "base", a certain game of ball … Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms … the game of ball is glorious."
Baseball"I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became Cardinals fans and grew up happy and liberal and I became a Cubs fan and grew up embittered and conservative."
Baseball"Baseball is like church. Many attend, but few understand."
Baseball"You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping as baseball and in the end, it turns out that it was the other way around all the time."
Baseball"He told me he couldnt wait for the basketball season to end, so he could go back to baseball and get out of shape."
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