How is baseball America's favorite pastime
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Kainoa Higa
English 12
Ms. Grimble
10 April 2014
How Is Baseball Americans Favorite Past-Time Imagine you going up to the plate and hitting a base hit to score the winning run in the last inning. I will be talking to you about baseball, Americans favorite pastime. When I first played the game of baseball, I thought that baseball was so boring but when I got older, it got very interesting. The connection I can make is that baseball is America’s past time and has deep traditional values in many of us like me. Abner Doubleday, a young man from New York City invented the game of baseball in the summer of 1839. It became America’s beloved national pastime. Baseball is America’s favorite pastime because everyone likes the game but they think that the game is to slow to watch. Baseball is assign of inequality because when baseball was first made a African American baseball player tried to play but the whites didn’t want him to play. Jackie Robinson was the first black person to play in the major leagues in 1947. Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was very good baseball player that enable to open the door to follow his footsteps. In 1949 and 1955 he was National league MVP and a World Series champ. I used this evidence because it’s a sport of freedom and that every one should be able to play the game. The song “Take Me Out To The Ball Game” is a classic song that is played every 7th inning stretch. It was written in 1908 by a guy named Jack Norworth. Jack was a very successful vaudeville entertainer/ songwriter. People know this song because it’s played at every game. Norworth came up with the lyrics when he was riding the New York subway and he seen a sig that says “Baseball Today at the Polo Grounds” .I think that this song will remind me about baseball. Another connection to the America’s past time is eating hot dogs and eating. I think that every major league team sells hot dogs because it’s a part of baseball.
Kainoa Higa
English 12
Ms. Grimble
10 April 2014
How Is Baseball Americans Favorite Past-Time Imagine you going up to the plate and hitting a base hit to score the winning run in the last inning. I will be talking to you about baseball, Americans favorite pastime. When I first played the game of baseball, I thought that baseball was so boring but when I got older, it got very interesting. The connection I can make is that baseball is America’s past time and has deep traditional values in many of us like me. Abner Doubleday, a young man from New York City invented the game of baseball in the summer of 1839. It became America’s beloved national pastime. Baseball is America’s favorite pastime because everyone likes the game but they think that the game is to slow to watch. Baseball is assign of inequality because when baseball was first made a African American baseball player tried to play but the whites didn’t want him to play. Jackie Robinson was the first black person to play in the major leagues in 1947. Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was very good baseball player that enable to open the door to follow his footsteps. In 1949 and 1955 he was National league MVP and a World Series champ. I used this evidence because it’s a sport of freedom and that every one should be able to play the game. The song “Take Me Out To The Ball Game” is a classic song that is played every 7th inning stretch. It was written in 1908 by a guy named Jack Norworth. Jack was a very successful vaudeville entertainer/ songwriter. People know this song because it’s played at every game. Norworth came up with the lyrics when he was riding the New York subway and he seen a sig that says “Baseball Today at the Polo Grounds” .I think that this song will remind me about baseball. Another connection to the America’s past time is eating hot dogs and eating. I think that every major league team sells hot dogs because it’s a part of baseball.
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