Baseball In America Research Paper

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“Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday 's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That 's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that 's the way baseball is”(Bob Feller). People in America besides the food, the jobs, and the freedom love and enjoy Americas sports. While a great many of people see football as “America 's game”, baseball has been “America 's game” for over a generation. Baseball was one of America’s most earliest and famous games back in the 1800’s and still is to this day and age. People see baseball as a game or a sport and it is, but it in many ways is also so much more than just a game or sport. It may be to your surprise, but baseball has played a big part to our history here in the United States of America.
During the Summer of 1839 a young man named Abner Double was said to have invented now known as “America’s game” baseball in Cooperstown, New York. As time passed after baseball had been created it spread across the nation and kept growing from there. After being created baseball evolved through the years, for example 6 years after the game was invented …show more content…

Baseball originated here in America and so it only fitted that in 1857 America declared that as other countries such as England and Germany had sports of there own that baseball be Americas. One of the reasons why baseball is so famous here in America is because many people watch baseball more often than other sports because it is usually everyday or almost everyday so they like it more and more they watch it. Baseball is a hard sport to play and takes a lot of mental toughness and is a game of the mind not physically. In a way baseball is everything America stands for because everybody has a chance on a baseball field whether you’re old, young, can hit good or canfield good you have a