¶ … Baseball Still America's Pastime?
There was a time when baseball was akin to religion. Baseball was played and discussed in small towns and large cities from coast to coast. But today many feel baseball is a dying sport. There are those who contend baseball is slowly and sadly fading away, overrun by a fast-paced, multi-cultural, technology driven society. In today's America baseball must contend with summer basketball, soccer, football in the spring and fall, and extreme sports. Furthermore, sedentary lifestyles brought about by technology have more children sitting indoors at computers and video games and fewer filling out enrollment forms for little league. And there are those who argue the game has grown boring from a lack of parity with the same teams continually dominating the sport. But is this truly the case? Is baseball dying?
Discussion
Background
There is some dispute as to when the game of baseball actually began to be played since reference can be found dating back several centuries to European games that are conceivably the early ancestors of the modern game. In the United States the first know reference appeared in1791 in Pittsfield Massachusetts, where legislation was enacted prohibiting the game near the town meeting house. There is little dispute the game as we know it today came about in 1845 when a member of the New York Knickerbockers' Club, Alexander Cartwright laid out the first set modern rules. The first official game took place in 1846 and grew in popularity until by the end of the Civil War journalist's were referring to the game as "America's Pastime" ("History of Baseball").
Ironically the Civil War did much to advance...
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