Transcript: Baseball is known as America's Pastime, and it just so happens to be my favorite sport, so when I saw this assignment I knew I wanted to present my favorite sport baseball. The History of baseball is a long and confusing one, games that mimic baseball have been around since the 13th century in Europe with the most popular one being Cricket. The history of baseball itself is a complicated one, it was believed that the inventor of baseball Abner Doubleday invented it around the time of the Civil War, but that fact has been proven wrong. We now know that baseball has been around since the 1700s but are still unaware of who the actual inventor is. The "Modern Age" of baseball is defined as post World War Two to the present day, and since the days of Abner Doubleday, we have seen the game change massively. The "Golden Era" for baseball occurred between the end of World War One and the beginning of World War One. During WWII 37 players would be late inducted into the Hall of Fame that went, and served in the military. Baseballs importance to the country couldn't be more important, President Roosevelt wrote a letter that asked for baseball to be continued to be played so that it could boost Americans' morale, and this is when there was an all-women's league was created, and later on, had a film made about them that was called "League of Their Own". In recent times we have also seen baseball bring the country together for example President George W Bush threw out the first pitch at the World Series in 2001 after 9/11, and David Ortiz gave a very emotional speech at Fenway Park in Boston after the Boston Marathon bombings. Also because of its popularity, it gained the nickname America's Pastime. The most important person to ever play the game is a man named, Jackie Robinson. Robinson broke the color barrier that was in baseball when he played first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Robinson went on to be one of the best players the game has ever seen and has even had his number retired league-wide. Baseball's popularity has decreased recently mainly because of how long the season is, and the games take close to three hours to complete on any given day. One of my favorite things about baseball is how romantic it is. What I mean by that is that in the most important moments no matter how big or small special moments seem to take place. Whether it's a rookie getting the call to the "Show", or there is a walk-off home run in game seven of the world series. There always seems to be a moment that every baseball fan can point to, or player and say that's why I'm a baseball fan.