Baseball: Who got you interested in the game?

[simonmarcel]

Luke Cage really got me thinking about the correlation between having a father around and an interest in baseball. The only reason I'm into it is because my father is. I picked up all other sports on my own. The more I thought about it, everybody I knew growing up that played baseball had a father at home. I see single mothers in the stands at football and basketball games all the time. I've never seen them at a baseball game. I also thought of how playing catch is one of the first things that comes to mind that a father does with his son.

Who got you interested in baseball?

 

[BGLR1212000]

The coach went to my homeboys mother church. I guess he did an announcement for his team, and my homies mom signed us up. 3rd grade.

 

[largebillsonlyplease]

my father. used to pick me up from school in the middle of the day, take me to mcdonalds, then to the a's game..
playing hookie with your dad>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

[Pworld297]

Growing up as a kid in the 80's we played football, basketball and baseball. The park we went to even had a diamond. Parks now in the black neighborhoods don't even have a diamond anymore. I've watched more baseball the last couple of years because my Cubbies are finally good.

I guess you can say that I got interested because all of the other kids in my neighborhood played. Football and basketball came first though.

 

[knightmelodic]

The elder males in my family loved baseball. In their childhood baseball and boxing were the only sports that could give Black men a chance to make money and rise out of the ghetto.

 

[Entrepronegro]

I became a fan of baseball when I first played it in elementary school. My favorite team growing up was my hometown team Toronto Blue Jays. My favorite baseball moment was when Joe Carter hit the game winning home run against the Phillies in 1993 that won the World Series for us.

 

[Mello Mello]

My dad use to always take the fam to Oakland A's games.
For the longest my favorite teddy bear wore a green Oakland A's hat. That's how I got started with baseball.

Then I picked up basketball, track and field and football on my own.
I loved to run a lot so I gravitated to football more than basketball cuz I just like the idea of burning kids trying to catch me or catching the fastest kids so that's where most of my focus went wasn't really swearing an allegiance to any specific team then, that came later.

But the first ever organized sport I played was baseball. First sport I ever received a trophy from, baseball.
First sport I watched on TV was baseball. As we grew up pops returned to the old tradition of going to baseball games and we'd go see Barry Bonds play often.

 

[Alessandro de' Medici]

Pops . Its a family tradition for all of the guys in the family to attend a few games a year

 

[DJ]

My mom, she has been a cubs season ticket holder for a probably 35 years. Even before that she used to take my sister and I to games at least once a week if they were in town. I didn't enjoy watching baseball until I started playing little league and now as an adult it is my favorite sport to watch.

 

[playahaitian]

My dad and this old head at one of my first gigs.

 

[mathtest]

when i stayed at my grandmoms crib during the summer i randomly turned on a game and it was the yankees vs mariners and i watched ken griffey put on a home run and fielding clinic, i instantly became a fan, i was 1 of the ones who thought it was a boring sport which it can be at times but i still love it

 

[LSN]

pops...would go to the park...wiffle ball and bat

 

[three-fifths]

been following beisbol since 1973.

i was too small to play football, and too short to play basketball.

therefore....