I see great things in baseball. It's our game – the American game. It will take our people out of doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us. – Walt Whitman
Why is Baseball Important to America?
Baseball entered into the spotlight of the American public around the same time the United States was beginning to define itself as the leading force in the world through the industrial revolution. The great baseball player Reggie Jackson once said, “[t]he country is as American as baseball” (Elias 3). The very existence of baseball is vitally important to American culture. It is used in everyday language as a metaphor
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