Baseball in America - COA Virtual Presentation

Baseball in America on Wednesday February 24 at 2:00 p.m.

In the past, baseball preseason conversations began in February. On Wednesday, February 24 at 2:00 p.m.

Evan Weiner will present Baseball in America.

This year despite speculation that spring training 2021 and the regular season might be delayed because of COVID-19 concerns, MLB has instructed teams to begin preparing for the mid-February launch of spring training as planned. Baseball has been embedded in the American culture since the end of the Civil War. There have been poems, songs, comedy routines, movies, TV shows, and books with baseball themes.

Baseball cards have been and continue to be a big part of the culture. Casey At the Bat was required reading for elementary school students at one point. Abbott and Costello’s Who’s On First routine debuted on radio and led them to the Hall of Fame. The name Cooperstown means something special. And even Broadway got into the act with a play. Nobody ever wanted to be “Wally Pipped”. Even today business analytics may have evolved from the movie Money Ball.

Baseball was once the king of American sports. That may have ended but baseball in the culture has never gone away.

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