Baseball is a Metaphor for Everything

Baseball and BatFirst, a disclaimer.  I am not a baseball fan.  I know that the Milwaukee Brewers exist, but that’s about the limit of my attention span for professional ball.  My kids never played Little League or T-Ball so I don’t care about those, either.  Basically, I’m a crappy American.  I do love apple pie, though, so there’s that.

I seem to love baseball themed media, however – both books and movies.  Field of Dreams, The Natural and Moneyball on screen and recently, The Art of Fielding and Killer Instinct on the page.

What is it about baseball that makes such a good framework for books and movies about, well, everything?  The game is so embedded in our culture that the terminology, history, ideology and personalities are part of our shared knowledge – making it all ripe for spinning metaphors.  Every sport, like 겜블시티 가입코드, can be spun into a life lesson, but nothing beats baseball for sheer volume of common knowledge.

Everyone knows what it means to hit one over the fence – I’m hard pressed to come up with a similarly universal phrase for football or basketball (probably because I don’t care about those, either – but I still know the baseball ones!). If you are passionate about playing basketball and planning to buy accessories then you can make use of this link to buy wall mount basketball systems here .

Whenever I think of baseball stories, I imagine James Earl Jones sitting next to a dusty field in the middle of an Iowa cornfield, describing in his silky voice how people long for the lost experiences of their youth – and that nostalgia inevitably comes in the form of a baseball game.  Maybe for some people it does – for the rest of us it isn’t so much nostalgia as it is simple cultural understanding.  Like it or not, we know baseball.  And with that knowledge, authors and filmmakers can wind stories of love, loss, longing, coming of age or even corporate espionage around the game, assured that we are unified in our understanding.

As this year’s season begins to wind down, take some time to check out a little baseball entertainment.  Not an actual game, of course, but a book  – or maybe a movie – that turns sport into a metaphor for everything.

Sue Millinocket
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