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Baseball
* are a common cause of eye injuries among adolescents
  - harder to throw than explosives
* begins in the spring, the season of new life
  - when everything is being reborn
* breast pocket bulging with a transistor radio.
* business that has always been slow to make major changes.
* businessman scouring the box scores during lunch break.
* can have two seasons in addition to the high school season
  - lead to injuries caused by overusing a certain body part
* caps only provide protection to the forehead
  - with American company logos are status symbols
* chocolate smile on a child's face.
* civilized, conservative, passive, slow-paced, sexless, antiquated sport.
* combination of balance, agility, and concentration with bursts of physical activity.
* combines power and anaerobic capacity.
* competitive business.
* contends it family sport.
* course designed to teach students basic fundamentals of baseball.
* cutthroat business.
* cyclical business that finds itself at the mercy of the elements.
* dance of the heart and the spirit.
* difficult game to play.
* divides the divisions strictly by age.
* does have a lot of good people, but it also has wife beaters, drug users and criminals.
* employs scores of scouts to explore the country and discover baseball talent.
* encourages obsessions.
* enriches language and imagination at almost every point of contact.
* fan's game.
* game between two teams of nine players each, played on an enclosed field
  - for writers
  - in which the line between myth and reality is constantly blurred
* game of both open spaces and finite dimensions
  - continuity, threads reaching across time
  - contradictions
  - errors
  - hits, runs, catches, and pitches
  - honor
  - inches, meaning it's a game of statistics and measurements
  - legends and of hallowed figures and records
  - mistakes
  - momentum
  - numbers and statistics
  - numbers, heavily reliant on statistics and other information
  - order and taking turns
  - race, creed, and color
  - rituals
  - routines and repetition
  - rules with umpires
  - situations
  - statistics and so is life
  - streaks
  - played by idiots for morons
* game that brings smiles to the faces of youngsters
  - people love to analyze and is filled with many intricacies
  - requires judgment
  - supports continuation
* game where any team can beat another team at any given time
  - southern schools have all the advantages
  - teams repeat their own histories
  - with the power to restore faith
* game, which is unlike any other.
* generally uses a money line.
* generously allows parent and child to share with each other.
* gentlemen's sport.
* growing sport in Sydney's west and Australia as a whole.
* has a drug problem comparable to society's
  - history of bypassing minority candidates when managing jobs come open
  - rhythm that alternates between waiting and explosive action
  - strong sense of history
  - tendency to pigeonhole people
* has a way of bringing together friends and family
  - freezing memories for a lifetime
  - helping people make new friends
  - an older fan base than do most sports
  - batting averages
  - deep roots in Ohio
  - four coaches and softball has four coaches
  - interleague play
  - no clock
  - one designated hitter
  - stitchs
  - streaks and teams play three or four games in a row, on consecutive days
* has the World Series
  - highest rate of parental involvement
  - major leagues
  - three eras
* have less bounce than tennis balls or golf balls.
* humbling sport.
* includes regulation time
  - second periods
* inspires poets, novelists, artists and playwrights.
* involves fitness, stamina and health.
* is America's game
  - national sport, but it has become Japan's national sport as well
  - Nicaragua's national pastime
* is about coaches and players on the schoolyards
  - families and the special moments that they share around the game
  - instinct, reflex, muscle memory
  - more things than batting average
  - philosophy and meditation and nostalgia
  - the passion of the sport
* is all about discussing, arguing, debating
  - life's journeys and one's unceasing efforts to return to where one began
  - pitching
  - timing, being in the right place at the right time and doing good
* is also a game of optimism, just as America nation of optimism
  - popular in Cuba and other Caribbean nations
  - american tradition
  - among group games played with a ball what fencing is to games of combat
* is an everyday grind
  - as American as mom, apple pie, and handguns
  - ballet
  - bands
  - baseball, after all
  - big business with large payrolls
  - both the great American pastime and an ideal way to study the nation's history
  - built on the premise of equality
  - chess
  - considered the national sport of Cuba
  - fathers and sons
  - founded on the notion that there's no place like home
  - hereditary
  - humanity in uniform
  - indeed the greatest sport mankind has ever created
  - involved in pennant races and wild-card chases
* is like any sport
  - life with rules
* is located in baseball games
  - parks
  - mental warfare
* is more popular than soccer now
  - structured than basketball
  - than just a game of balls and strikes
  - one of Japan's most popular sports
* is one of the few things that has stayed similar to how it once was
  - that is truly American in origin
* is one of the most popular spectator sports in Japan
  - threads holding society together
  - two sports most associated with throwing injuries involving the shoulder
  - orb
  - our national sport
  - outdoor sports
  - part of what makes our lives go 'round
  - particularly dependent on statistics
  - perhaps the most traditional of sports
* is played by a number of two sport athletes
  - every day
  - from spring to fall
* is played in a park
  - many countries, both on an amateur and professional level
  - on a diamond, a field, a park
* is played on a diamond, in a park, in a Baseball park
  - grassy fields, much unlike basketball
  - outside
  - using a softer version of the ball
  - with two main pieces of equipment, the bat and ball
  - practice, practice and practice to improve
  - probably the most superstitous sport there is
  - prone to wild swings in the game with individual plays
  - provided solely for entertainment purposes or as a pastime
  - rounds
  - seen by many as the only viable path to a better life
  - something that brings a lot of people's spirits up
  - spheres
  - spiritual in every respect, as indulged in by the Latin races
* is still popular today with children and adults
  - very safe because it is essentially a noncontact sport
  - supposed to be a game where hope springs eternal
  - teammates that become lifelong friends
* is the American pastime
  - Immaculate Conception of American sport
  - common pass time for people of all ages
  - game of myth, of legend, and of dreams
  - greatest game in the world
* is the greatest of American sports
  - all team sports
  - thing in the world
  - longer word because there are more sounds in baseball than in sky
  - most mental sport in the world
* is the most popular modern sport
  - sport in the country
  - team sport in the country
  - nation's pastime
  - national game
* is the national sport and passion
  - of the United States
  - sport, and all games draw large crowds
  - oldest and most successful organized sport at Mansfield
* is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror
  - can sell competitive balance
  - players' life
  - reason there are transistor radios
  - soap opera of the sports world
  - sport most likely to be attended less than once a month
  - unlike politics, education, popular culture and much else
* is used for catchings
  - playing games
  - very very popular in Japan
* kids' game.
* kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight.
* language of very simple words that tell unbelievably magic tales.
* link to our past, and by default to our fathers and grandfathers.
* links Kansan and Missourian, American and Japanese, But most of all father and son.
* long marathon that needs to be paced one step at a time.
* lot like the stock market.
* make marks on ceilings.
* means spring.
* mental game.
* mirror of life itself.
* moves faster than cricket.
* much different game outdoors on grass than it is indoors on artificial turf.
* national treasure.
* neat sport that has a history every day.
* needs to address the lack of women and minorities in positions of power.
* nineteenth-century pastoral game.
* operates at a unique pace, so unlike football, hockey and basketball.
* part of America's history.
* percentages game.
* playing success depends on vision more than most other sports.
* popular sport in Alabama.
* pursuit for optimists, just like drilling for oil or running for office.
* quasi-public confederation of private businesses.
* relies on defense and chemistry more than on individuals making incredible plays.
* requires athletes to use more skill than aggression when playing
  - core strength - strong backs and strong abs
* revolves around the strike zone.
* seems to be less of a team game than basketball, football, soccer or hockey.
* serves as a model for life where change is inevitable.
* shows, instead, that men are as capable of control as they are of creating chaos.
* simple children's game with a stick and a ball that uses chess-like combinations.
* sport of strategy, skill and precision
  - offering great opportunities
* sport that encourages obsessions
  - requires thinking
  - s always changing
  - takes above-average intelligence in order to manage
  - the entire family can enjoy
* start 'at rest' in pitchers' gloves.
* statistical game.
* statistician's dream, with more numbers to keep track of than perhaps any other sport.
* summer sport.
* teaches cooperation and responsibility
  - respect for players, teams, and families
  - virtues of teamwork over individual glory, and sacrifice over selfishness
* team game played by nine individuals
  - sport and rewards collective action
* topic in which all americans can openly talk about to each other.
* true reflection of life.
* uses defense to prevent defeat
  - money lines
* very traditional game.
* vital part of America's popular culture.
* warm-weather sport.
* way to see something new, a chance to play in another country.
* wholesome vent for excess nervous energy.