Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.
In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.
There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.
Baseball and its teams are proud of the sport's long-standing role as a change agent in American culture and society.
Baseball is a game that shouts, 'Slow Down' to America. Stop tweeting, texting, blogging, watching cable news, and obsessing about polls, lost planes, and focus-group-driven politicians.
Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.
Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.
Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.
Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.
Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.