The Importance Of Baseball In The American Society

Baseball is one of the most popular and oldest professional sports league in American history. It became a national pastime due to the tradition it created. It leaves a person wondering how could a simple game of using a bat to hit a ball across a field become a professional sport. Baseball gives people entertainment with over 30 baseball teams that are in the major league and roughly 15 teams in the minor league. The game attracts millions of viewer via media outlets like TV, radio, and newspaper and draws, even more, spectators to their stadiums. People from every background, sexual orientation, and race come to the stadium to enjoy a game. Baseball embodies the standards of the American society. “While America is about breaking apart, baseball is about connecting. America, independent and separate, is a lonely nation in which culture, class, ideology, creed fail to unite us; baseball is the tie that binds” (Thorn). It provided people a way to escape from the world. Baseball has seen America through its greatest and toughest times. Whether the country is going through economic growth or going into a war, baseball is there to provide people the

Players would cheat for their team. They would use corked bats, performance enhancing drugs or substances like pine tar. Doing these actions tarnishes the image of the player, the team, and baseball itself. The league takes appropriate consequences to deal with the situation. However, a player cheating can change how future players play baseball. Jim Creighton was a pitcher for the Brooklyn Excelsiors in 1860. He is considered the first baseball superstar. “He changed the game forever, not by his prowess but by cheating and getting away with it; pitching a spinning, rising ball with a then illegal snap of the wrist, masked so skillfully that no umpire could detect it” (Thorn). He broke the rule in a way that did not get him removed from the game or worse,