My Dad was a baseball fanatic, spending his youth at the Polo Grounds watching the New York Giants.
Growing up on Long Island, one of my earliest memories is going with him to a Yankees game.
Maybe thats whybaseballtouches my soul.
Baseball has paralleled American history.
One of Thomas Edisons first displays of the usefulness of the lightbulb was a night ball game in Massachusetts.
It is a game of history and tradition.
America has rolled by like an army of steam rollers.
It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again.
But baseball has marked the time.
For some, baseball season seems to go on forever.
Others hope it never ends.
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“You look forward to it like a birthday party when you’re a kid.
You think something wonderful is going to happen.”
Opening Day saw an average of 36,107 attendees per stadium.
Cincinnati, home of the oldest franchise in baseball, holds the annualFindlay Market Paradeto celebrate Opening Day.
The tradition goes back to the 1800s.
Last year, more than 130,000 fans attended the parade.
Ive seen these horses in person, and they are majestic.
One tradition that moves from city to city is the unfurling of the Championship Banner.
