Metaphor Of Baseball

According to the article, “Quotations About Baseball” (2017), Bill Veeck stated, “That’s the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on a ball.” See what’s crazy is this quote can apply to so much. As everyone loves when springtime rolls around, avid sport lovers are eager for spring athletics. Known as America’s pastime, baseball has been loved amongst the country since its creation in 1836. According to the chart, “Top 10 List of the World’s Most Popular Sports” (2017), lists baseball as number seven and boasts a whopping “five hundred million fans”. Being an average American, I notice how Americans close their mind to their beloved spring athletics. Past the ocean borders beholds land with totally different cultures. Where America has baseball, Asia, Australia, and the United Kingdom all turn their eyes toward a sport that originated in 1877, cricket. “Top 10 List of the World’s Most Popular Sports” (2017) lists cricket as the second most popular sport in the world entrancing over “2.5 billion fans”. While baseball is so popular in the United States, cricket rules the eastern hemisphere with five times the number of fans. The two sports are similar and different on multiple aspects, an argument definitely arises when discussing the difficulty between the two. Each sport has their own attributes to declare better or more challenging than the other. I believe it’s all a matter of opinion, facts, and experience, but

In American culture today we use a wide variety of metaphors to describe different situations. Today, I am going to focus on how we commonly use the sport of baseball metaphorically in our daily conversations. The reason I am choosing baseball is because, it is America’s past time, a game that has been around since the Eighteenth century, and one that has great influence on American culture.

Lets take a look into why I believe that baseball has not only followed in the footsteps our “Great Country”, but is still “America’s Pastime.” Ask yourself, “is baseball our country’s sport, has it not evolved with our great nation?” The answer is yes, for many reasons. Lets take a look back in history, “President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared, ‘that all persons held as slaves’ within the rebellious states ‘are, and henceforward shall be free.’ Despite this expansive wording, the Emancipation Proclamation was limited in many ways. It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, leaving slavery untouched

Baseball has been around America for a very long time, and it is very popular. Baseball has been a tradition for many American families. Some people like to watch Major League Baseball on TV in their homes while other get together with family, friends, and businesses and start their own teams and play against each other. But why do many call baseball a tradition? Maybe it’s because baseball has been around for a very long time and lots of people invest their lives in this game. And it’s just more than hitting a ball and running around a diamond. There are also trading cards, the Baseball Hall of Fame, fantasy baseball. Lots of people like to support their favorite teams, but people almost always get into a fight about who's better. Like the Mets and the Yankees, they’re two New York teams, and New York is a big place.

Do you like sports? If you said yes, what is your favorite sport. Today I’m going to do tell you why baseball (A.K.A “America's Sport) is the best sport ever played. And hopefully you will agree by the time this essay is over.

A professional baseball player once said that “ its a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit it square”. This is one of the reasons that baseball is a not just the best sport it is the hardest. Although some people believe that football is the best sport the reality is that baseball is the best sport that is around today. There are way more games in baseball than any other sport. In bleacher reports article their they say that their are 162 baseball games in one season and that is 6 months of baseball the NBA is 82 games a season and the NFL is only 16 games a season.

Baseball back then and baseball now have some similarities. For example, since baseball was invented there has always been errors in the sport. There have always been errors because we always say that best team wins or the team that makes the fewest mistakes always wins, but that’s not always true. Another similarity is that baseball is a true reflection of life. Back then and now it was/is a true reflection of life because you always get what you deserve and deserve what you get. It also is a game of many emotions that are in life such as; elation, satisfaction, frustration, and pride. By comparison, the game has always been a cruel but at the same time extremely forgiving because, for example, one game you can go 0 for 3 with 3 strikeouts and the next game you can go 3 for 3 with 3 doubles and a couple of RBIs. In the game of baseball, you never know what is going to happen, good or bad. Baseball back then has many differences from baseball today. In contrast, many players playing baseball back then played for the love of the game whereas many players today play for the money. For example, Pete Rose played for his passion of the game whereas Melky Cabrera, current White Sox outfielder, plays for the money and doesn’t play for his passion of the game. This difference leads to another difference. Baseball back then wasn’t a business as opposed to baseball today is a business. Players back then didn’t care about money, they just played because they loved the game but on the other hand baseball today is a business because players want those big contracts and care about the big bucks. Another difference is that players back then played with their bare hands and weren’t softies where as players now play with gloves and all that armor so they don’t get hurt. In

The Mentality of Baseball I’ve noticed that every year of baseball, the mind set of each player must at least be any time before the acquired date of practice. In my sense, baseball is the greatest sport to be adequate in every aspect of life. To build the loyal character I want, the game of baseball will in fact; be the more efficient way to adapt to life ahead. Many people may understand the difficulty of the game, till the realization occurs; it’s all focused on mentality. Off-season is the time for the greater goods to come out of me; it’s the time to express my feelings through hard work, dedication, and character.

Some would say baseball and softball are the same but these two sports, although, they are very much alike, they have very distinct differences. They each have their very own traits that make them unique. Both baseball and softball are very competitive sports that the players take very seriously and are equally very entertaining to watch. Did you know that baseball is considered to be America’s favorite pastime? If you’re ready, let us dive in and find out what makes baseball and softball so unique.

Based on the answer we collected, everyone in the focus group agreed that baseball is a sport that people grew up with and it has a lot to do with the tradition and history, and that is the

Softball vs. Baseball “Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world” (Ruth, n.d). While many people agree with Babe Ruth on that opinion, softball is also quickly becoming an American favorite. Not only has softball been added to the Olympic games, but college softball has also become popular.

More than 11.5 million people play baseball at some level in the United States. (Reference.com) Another sport that is played by millions of people in other countries that is similar to baseball is called cricket. Both sports are loved around the world, yet they are quite different. Baseball is better and more fun than cricket for the following reasons.

Worldwide, sports celebrities like Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Lebron James and the like, would lead a lot of people to think that basketball is the premiere sport in the US. Well, that is an incorrect impression. Baseball is the number one sport in the US, and Major League Baseball (MLB) is considered to be American professional baseball's highest level of play.

The other day, I was checking my mail and I came across a card addressed to me from Milrich Associates. It was a card wishing me a happy one-year anniversary since joining the team. The card thanked me for being “part of our team”, and in the card, Melanie Koerperich wrote: “It’s been a whole year already!” To me, it doesn’t seem like it, but it has.

First I will talk about baseball. Baseball is said to be the national pastime of America. Baseball dates back all the way to the 19th century some say it started in England