Baseball Cultural Artifact Introduction

Baseball Cultural Artifact Introduction

            Baseball has always been America’s pastime where every kid sooner or later has dreams of being in the major leagues playing for his favorite team. When a kid thinks about that dream about playing in Major League Baseball, they rarely think about money. However when a player gets to the major leagues, they definitely start thinking about money. In professional sports players prefer to play for the large market teams because they are able to put together better teams and are able to pay their players a higher salary. That isn’t always the case in Major League Baseball as it is much more competitive than other professional sports and star players are distributed amongst all 30 teams much more evenly.

            Young players in baseball make 480 thousand dollars under the new Collective Bargaining Agreement so all young players no matter how rich or poor are making about half a million dollars so you don’t hear often about how baseball players are demanding trades to wealthier teams like in the NBA or the NFL. Players in the NBA and the NFL don’t ever seem as loyal as baseball players to their teams and fans. NBA rosters change players much more often than in baseball. Stars in baseball stay with their team much more than in other sports which allows the fans of baseball to support their stars through thick and thin. Another great reason why baseball is America’s pastime.