Unless you re studying for finals on a Saturday night, nothing really comes close. Baseball also has its own nostalgia. No other sport has created the legends that baseball has. Names like DiMaggio, Mantle, Mays, Williams, Cobb, Ripken, Griffey and Bonds are synonymous with legend. One man was even voted the No. 1 athlete of the 20th century.
Baseball has the yard, the sacs, the stick, the leather, the tar and the pine.
It brings families together and allows men to act like children. Indeed, it is. And then there s movies. No other sport has had the powerful, dramatic and fan-captivating silver screen entertainment as baseball flicks. From Major League to Bull Durham, from The Natural to The Sandlot, films about baseball always are far more entertaining than films about any other sport.