What makes you a baseball fan? Why do you have such a love for the game?

Question

Only honest heart felt answers please.

Answer 1

I don't much like the "business" of baseball. I still have not fully forgiven major league baseball for the 1994 players' strike. Having said that, I love going out to watch an amateur or minor league game. I don't enjoy it on TV nearly as much. For pure athletic action, football or basketball provides a greater amount of it, but I like the ambiance, the whole setting, the 7th inning stretch, the entertainment between half innings and all of that. Relaxing watching a ballgame and sipping a cold brew is my idea of an enjoyable evening. It is a very positive relaxing atmosphere.

Answer 2

Growing up in the Boston area, you're born a Red Sox and baseball fan. As long as I can remember I've been a huge fan of baseball. I've been playing baseball since I was seven years old. The reason I love baseball is because it brings me back to my childhood. Me and my dad have never talked much, one of the few things that has ever started a conversation has been baseball. A lot of the friends I made as a kid, was through little league baseball. I love the strategy that goes into a baseball game. It's just the greatest sport to play. Also the atmosphere at a MLB baseball game is electric. If you ever want experience baseball at its best, go to Fenway Park on a summer night.

Answer 3

Growing up sports was my life and baseball was the first sport I played. My dad was a minor league player in the Rangers organization - he never made it past AA ball. But he instilled a love for the game in me at an early age, taught me the ins and outs, all the little things the make the game unique and intersesting. I still love the watching baseball, it is a little harder nowadays because my favorite team is one of the worst in the game, but there is nothing I would rather do on a summer day than kick back at Kaufmann stadium and watch the Royals play.

Answer 4

i love baseball because i get goose bumps just reading why everyone else loves baseball. i have lived in St Louis my whole life, so baseball has always been everything. the first game i can remember it was the greenest grass the bluest sky and the biggest hot dogs i had ever seen... it was in 86 and the cards just lost the world series to the royals the year before (grrrrr) so to a 6 year-old the cardinals where the best team ever until we lost 7-2 to the pirates. so ofcourse the pirates where now the best, and for the next 2 years my favorite team was the pirates!!!

Answer 5

I love baseball because it was all I did growing up. We had a lot of kids that lived in the neighborhood that were all about playing baseball all the time. I used to go to games all the times with my dad and uncle and started going as soon as i was old enough to go myself. My friends and I would go to games all the times in the summer. We could get a bleacher seat at the stadium for like $3. I still look forward to games as much as i did back then. it isn't about your team being the best or not, it is going to the park, sitting in the sun, and relaxing and watching the games. There are too many people that are only going if their team is doing well (Yankees, RedSox) and many others that call themselves fans, but only bother to go when there team is up.

Answer 6

I can remember sitting with my grandfather outside during the summer listening to the game on the radio and him telling me how to imagine the game in my head and how just to love the game. It’s funny of all the sports out there baseball is the one sport that has been there for everyone in American. Countries have risen and fallen but baseball is there, the history, the smells, the excitement of watching a 7 year old with his day teaching him how to keep score, while he hold that big foam finger in the air. Not caring who is playing because he’s with his dad and it’s the greatest bonding experience you can have. Baseball is the greatest sport in the world because it’s the only family sport in the world; the whole family can enjoy it and does. Go to a game minor major college pickup or little league with your son and daughter and sit in the stand with a hot dog and a coke and enjoy.

Answer 7

Well my grandpa was a very good baseball player. He played it in college, and all my uncles play it. My dad played it, and my sisters play softball. I sorta inherited the legacy sort of speak. Also baseball is a huge part of my life. I love just being there. Its one of the best feelings I've ever felt. And when my grandpa died I knew he would have wanted me to do as best I could. That is why I love the game.

Answer 8

it is the very first sport I played as a 5 year old kid. it is relatively easy to understand and play. It is summer embodied into a sport. Not to mention some of the best sports movies are about baseball.

It is the thinking man's sport. It is all about strategy. So while it may appear boring to the non-fan/outsider, it is actually very intersesting to watch. and unlike some sports, it is played in a lot of countries.

Answer 9

I've been a baseball fan since before I can remember anything else in life. My grandfather grew up in Pittsburgh and went to games at Forbes Field. My father was a squid, but when the family was stationed in the US, my pap always found time to get them to ball games and to cheer for the Buccos. It got passed down to me when I was young, and it's just something you can't shake. There's nothing like a day at the ballpark.

Answer 10

Its a beautiful game. No clock . It announces springtime and takes you back to playing pickle until mom made you come in for bed. It even makes $6.00 hot dogs taste good.