U.S.A where the MLB and base ball were created-No.1- by Masakazu Kimura

Masakazu Kimura

Almost everyone in the world knows what “Baseball” is, but as a matter of fact, some people don’t know what “MLB” is. Major League Baseball (MLB) is professional baseball league in North America and one of the four major North American professional sports leagues. Four sports are Baseball (MLB), Basketball (NBA), Hockey (NHL) and American Football (NFL). There are thirty teams in MLB and only one team is in Canada, but other teams are in U.S. MLB is divided into two main leagues, American League and National League and each league has three divisions which are East, Central and West. Also, each division is consists with 4~5 teams.

        If you hear the word “MLB”, people might think MLB is the just only baseball league and baseball fan’s go there and watch the game for fun. To be honest, that is totally right. Fans go to the stadium and bet with friends which team is going to win.  That is their pastime and they are looking for it every single week. However, the game of MLB is anything but a game for baseball fans. There were a lot of important histories and MLB (baseball) affected the world in many ways like society, culture, the motivation of the citizens and ethical issues. To prove that MLB affected the world, let us just face some effect start from the change of world’s society, especially American society.

        Back in 1796 while the sport “baseball” was created in U.S, baseball became one of the most famous sports in U.S. and almost hundred years later, baseball association created new organization for baseball which is “MLB”. From year to year, MLB (baseball) become worldwide known and a lot of countries were involved to this new sport and baseball association. MLB build a stadium for baseball only in major cities, like NY and west coast. Because of that, many American fans from all states actually visit the stadium and paid money to watch the game. Fans also paid money for hotel or other thing in the city too. This really helped major cities’ economy to be more developed and the state which has stadium became rich. Not only America but other countries also adopted new sports “baseball” and the system of MLB into their country and same economic development happened in some countries. In these days, MLB and baseball association in other countries are supporting developing countries or the country that had tragedy and actually donating money.

        Since baseball was created, the number of fans increase year and year. Not only citizen, but also some companies started to support the MLB and base ball. Also, in these days, other countries’ citizen except U.S.A like me is supporting the MLB and the people who like to watch the game of MLB are getting energy from MLB baseball and our motivation goes up while we are watching the game. This is also the positive effect that MLB made.

        The biggest effect that MLB made is the ethical problems. As a matter of fact, U.S. had conflict between white and black people. Because of the different skin color, people detested and white people thought black people aren’t American and they used to be a slave, so they are not human. On the other hand, black people disliked white people so much because they treated black people like their pet. Thus, they were different baseball teams which were consisted with only white player or black player. Not only baseball. In the daily life, white and black people were completely separated. It was unbelievable thing for black baseball player and fans to join to MLB or go to the MLB stadium. However in 1947, Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson who was African American and born in U.S.A in 1919 became the first MLB baseball player who had black skin. A lot of white people complained about him, but because he had great baseball ability, everyone accepted him. His entry to MLB shocked black baseball player and after that, black player also started to join MLB and now, there are about half players are black. Because of Jackie, white and black relationship became much better and the issues were solved. In these days, baseball players from other countries like Japan, Cuba, Korea are playing in MLB. For extra information, there are more than 14 Japanese players in MLB.

        With these effects, we can say that MLB is not only american sports to watch and enjoy but also MLB affect the world in many ways as economy, culture, ethnical probelems and it also changed the citizen’s motivation. Before I wrote this essay, I just knew the basic inforation of MLB, but through this work, I also had a opportunity to know the non famous side of MLB.

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Work Cited

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