What Baseball is.....

Title: What Baseball is.....
Category: Literature / Poetry | Words: 410 | Pages: 1.7 (approximately 235 words/page)

What Baseball is.....

Baseball is the President tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm. A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout - that's baseball. So is the big, fat guy with a bulbous nose running home one of his 714 home runs. There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago - …showed first 75 words of 410 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 410 total…I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this Earth." Baseball is cigar smoke, hot-roasted peanuts, The Sporting News, Ladies Day, Down in Front, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," and "The Star Spangled Banner." Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America - this baseball!

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