Personal Narrative: The Sport Of Baseball

“The game of baseball has long been regarded as a metaphor for the American dream -an expression of hope, democratic values, and the drive for individual success.” Baseball has brought joy to many Americans to distract from other problems that are occurring. It helped us throughout the Civil War when it started to gain popularity and took off from there. It distracted the population through a country tear itself apart at the seems. It’s a sport that’s a team but truly relies on how good the players are. You can’t have a good team if you don’t have good individual players. I personally feel because teams began to integrate black and white players, it helped with Civil Rights. It may not have seemed like that due to the strong amount of hate, but the players were good and helped with wins. It wore down the haters to realizing and respecting the players; however, it wasn’t like that for a long period of time. …show more content…
The teammates didn’t treat the ballplayers the same because of the color of the skin. A team is supposed to stick together and be strong together, but everything was separate. The American dream is what baseball is called, but for the black ballplayers was something they received hate for. They were barely allowed on the team, but really they were made into ‘other’ by the way they were treated by the white people in society. Playing sports requires being at your strongest physically and mentally. How could these colored players play the best they could when all they received was hate for being apart of the “American dream”? These players had to work under a severe circumstance of