Category: baseball...

receiving a Happy Birthday message on the scoreboard at a baseball stadium
standing in an empty major league baseball stadium, on home plate
a baseball signed by your favorite player
arranging a trip for a baseball fan to attend spring training
Baseball has the snap, go, fling of the American atmosphere -- it belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: it is just as important in the sum total of our historic life. It is the place where memory gathers. (Walt Whitman)
a pilgrimage to Cooperstown's Hall of Fame
winter's hot stove leagues
baseball's terms and phrases as part of the national vocabulary -- baseball metaphors used continually
Ken Burns's nostalgic Baseball documentary
Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades. (Frank Robinson)
the apex in the autumn winds of October when heroics on the mound and in the batter's box prove decisive
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. (J. Leonard)