Think of how your pulse will leap when you hear the angry roar.

Of the bleacher gods in rage, you will find the action there,

Which you’ve hunted for in vain, in the Presidential chair.

Chasing the mountain lions and such, catching grizzlies will seem tame,

Lined up with the jolt you’ll get in the thick of some close game.

Choking angry wolves to death as a sport will stack up raw,

When you see Kid Elberfeld swinging for your under jaw.

When you hear Hugh Jennings roar, “Call them strikes, you lump of cheese!”

Or McGraw rushing in, kicking at your shins and knees.

A poem about Theodore Roosevelt, from Baseball Prose, Poems and Songs

Baseball is an American legacy, sometimes referred to as the “American Pastime”. Baseball has mimicked the American society for centuries, with roots beginning as early as 1839. One important era of influence on the sport was the Progressive Era. G. Edward White expresses this by saying, “Baseball was launched as a national sport, and cultural icon, in the Progressive Era. Its internal legal and economic structure, its business expectatio

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