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Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Rugby players have numbers on their jerseys because the coroner can't always identify the bodies by the dental records alone.

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.

William Kelly and numerous other scholars argue that baseball is not part of the fully integrated sporting globalization paradigm, but is a glocal sport. Glocal refers to the global becoming a local aspect, and although baseball is played in numerous countries around the world, the sport is inherently unique to each culture.

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

For sportswriter Mike Lupica, a generation removed from Roger Kahn, baseball is also a matter of fathers and sons, memory and conversation.

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 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. Mike Barnicle

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

Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle. George Carlin

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

Nicholas Mount counters that the game 'signifies a host of referents . . . [it] symbolizes youth, nostalgia, springtime, harmony, simplicity, in a word, baseball signifies pastoralism.

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.

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. Charles Krauthammer

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