However baseball is very much like sitting down in your favorite chair, clicking on the television and tuning in a movie that's already half over. You watch it to the end, you enjoy it to an extent, but let's face it, it's far more enjoyable if you got to see the the whole movie, from beginning to end. To enjoy, appreciate and understand the grand ol' game you have to understand it's roots and where it came from. You would gain insights that most likely you wouldn't have otherwise had. What we're doing here is to sharpen your appreciation, to allow you to savor and enhance the taste, to enjoy the experience fully.
Baseball is the gourmet supper.
The mythology of baseball is almost as pervasive as its reality. Deeply embedded in the folklore of American sports is the story of baseball's alleged invention by a West Point cadet by the name of Abner Doubleday, in the summer of 1839 at the village of Cooperstown, New York. Graves claimed that he actually witnessed the long-ago event. The Graves story found a sympathetic and enthusiastic ear in committee member Albert Spalding a man of glittering credentials. Spalding was a magnificent player in his salad days who went on to club ownership as well as founding a sporting goods company which endures to this day.