baseball, n.Definitions

Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.

Baseball is a matter of fathers and sons, memory and conversation.

Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game while football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.

Baseball is a game where they play organs. Rugby is a game where they donate organs.

Baseball is a pastoralism and is tied to symbols of youth, nostalgia, springtime, harmony, simplicity.

Baseball is a glocal sport. Rather than being fully integrated into the sporting globalization paradigm, in the case of baseball, the global becomes localized such that it becomes inherently unique in each culture where it is played.

Baseball is a movable conversation across nine innings. It is eye contact with the person seated next to you in a park where the pitcher is separated from the batter by 60 feet, six inches or in a family room where a 60-inch tv screen hangs on the wall.

Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You 'take in' a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.