Budweiser, steak, hot dogs, Mom’s Apple Pie (made from pears instead of apples), and major league baseball. These are the things we think of when we think of America and all of those things can be enjoyed at the ball park. Baseball, for many, is synonymous with the American Dream. Sure, there’s all that purple mountains majesty stuff to contend with and who can forget the bombs bursting in air by the dawn’s early light, but for millions of Americans, Diamond’s are both a girl’s and a boy’s best friend- baseball diamonds that is.
Still though, with the dawning of extreme sports and the takeover of video and computer games, not to mention the rise of the non-sportsmanlike geek, and high price tickets,
Baseball will survive, but baseball must be different. Baseball teams and players must find their place in a nation that seeks to find community with its neighbors around the world. Large Stadiums will likely make way for smaller venues, salaries capped, and players given contracts that reflect the social awareness of a nation doing penance for past grievances. Baseball will survive, but it must become an ambassador of the nation rather than a trophy of a nation’s triumph. For more than 100 years baseball has been an American institution (Sorry Canada. Your two teams don’t count) but the baseball of the future will become a world institution. Maybe someday when in New Delhi, you will hear a little boy say to hi
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