Explain How Baseball Has Shaped American Culture

Everyday 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. (“Famous Baseball Quotes,” 2016). The first ever recorded baseball game has shaped american culture. To begin, the first ever recorded baseball game caused the shaping of our culture by “getting the ball moving” so to speak or beginning the baseball movement. For example, Ken Burns (2004) stated “The first reference to baseball as “the National Pastime” came from the New York Mercury newspaper in 1856, though the title then was a bit premature. Baseball in that time emerged as a New York game played primarily by immigrants.” Another example,

Baseball, on the other hand, could be played almost anywhere.” This is one of the main reasons americans adapted so quickly to baseball compared with other sports. Americans were able to adapt to baseball due to the little necessities needed to play. The last example includes, Burns (2004) “The 1850s and 60s saw the rise of working-class teams, which became the most popular among the fans of the game, most of whom were working-class people themselves.” This proves the point of how baseball was commonly picked up from the hard-working class because they share some similar characteristics like resiliency and motivation. Equally important, The media was a big factor to the rise of baseball. The intrigued reporters caused for some ground breaking achievements. For example, Quoted by Ernest Miklich (2016) “The earliest known newspaper account of a Baseball game in the United States was published on September 11, 1845, in the New York Morning News.” As well as, accomplishments as important as “driving interest in the development of television technology, particularly for sporting events.” (“First televised Major league baseball game,” 2016). These milestones hit by the media helped the first ever recorded baseball game become a staple in American history. Not to be forgotten, The idea of how americans are able to relate to baseball. An