Our history wouldn't be the same either. Baseball reflects our society, indeed, is our society. Ours is a nation of immigrants, and the earliest baseball rosters prove it. Baseball was not just America's first sport, it was the world's first non-elitist sport. Ours has been aptly described as the age of the corporate player.
Baseball is a game with the power to restore faith.
In its infancy baseball healed the wounds of the Civil War. The Black Sox scandal of 1919 ushered in the '20s and the great Yankee teams featuring America's most famous orphan. Blacks could eventually play major league baseball even if they couldn't sit in the front of the bus. Resurrection is a fact of baseball, just as it is of religion. But baseball is as much spirit as substance, as much culture as history.