What is it about the early years of baseball that make it feel so mythical?
What is it about the early years of baseball that make it feel so mythical?
Jack Torres
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Nathan Thomas
It was a cool era in general
Connor Miller
it was a long time ago
Matthew Lewis
everyone had cool meme names
Colton Miller
what am I looking at here?
Nathaniel Sullivan
America was better at making myths then.
Babe Ruth at someone's funeral, presumably Lou Gehrig
Oliver Scott
Today everyone has lame meme names like Skaleb or Bryker
Cooper Phillips
Anerican baseball culture before WWII is on par with English football culture before this decade
Michael Nelson
The world in general was mythical and mysterious at the time.
Nathaniel Harris
It was the only relevant sport
William Howard
The whole fucking country went to shit after about 1955 or so. We were a great country, once.
Connor Reed
It's Babe Ruth mourning a fellow player who died of Lou Gehrig's disease
Logan Gonzalez
Landon Clark
you couldn't actually see and analyze every hit/pitch/catch so that inherently made it easier to build up these "legends." The players also weren't as exposed personally. Basically there was room for imagination due to incomplete information and that shit is long gone nowadays
Bentley Parker
Sportswriters could get away with murder because nobody would call them on any of their bullshit
Jace Ramirez
Not a sport
Nathaniel Harris
How is that any different from media je- I mean journalists now?
Ethan Garcia
Professional sports were much more novel back then. Think of these people of the founding fathers of baseball. They’re not the first greats but they were the first in an era where seeing them live was a big deal.
Adrian White
My favorite: Urban Shocker
James Rodriguez
no niggers
Colton Roberts
Commercialized but not horribly commercialized like today where they're fucking everywhere and you know everything about them.
Evan Martinez
>great country
>no rights for blacks, women or gays
Nah, my homophobic friend.
Nathaniel Gutierrez
Ethan Brooks
one of the few cultural bedrocks linking 19th, 20th, and 21st century America together. most everything embedded in our current popular culture started roughly around the post WW2-60s.
Jose Jenkins
Exactly, thank you for supporting me.
Jordan Harris
You’re not in a place to lecture us on systematic racism, Adolf. That’s all your country will be known for.
Asher Garcia
If you haven't been to Cooperstown I suggest you go, beautiful small town in New York. I felt that mood walking in the building. Can't describe it, but strangely emotional for just a game. The history is amazing.
Nathaniel Jenkins
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Christopher Reed
Good goy
Evan Morris
Was great for white men then, now it's shit for everyone