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| Note: Not Orchard Hills but similar dimensions |
How does the game of baseball refer to cultural significance? As a young boy, I experimented by trying many different sports. I played soccer, basketball, football, and baseball. Baseball became my instant passion when I first learned how to hit, catch, field and pitch. I grew up playing on a nice field called Orchard Hills. The field had dimensions similar to major league fields with a home run fence and all. It was a dream field to play on for a young baseball player. Sports bring together those from different cultures and backgrounds. Sports teach kids at an early age on sportsmanship, manners, and respect. It keeps kids out of worldly sins that have become more available to them in this day and age. Keep sports in society today. It goes unnoticed but sports are the best way to teach young ones things about culture in this day and age.
The definition of culture from a dictionary is the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc. Back in the 1940’s baseball was predominantly a white man’s sport. In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and became the first African American professional baseball player. A game of baseball brought a new respect to people of different culture and a different race. If grown men can learn to have cultural assimilation from a sport, why prevent kids to learn in a similar manner? Sports fields should be preserved and well maintained. You never know what it may do for society the next day.
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