Hand Baseball
Why is it people seem to think beer and baseball go hand in hand?
I work at a major league baseball stadium. Yesterday I saw a father bring his yound son to the game and the little guy was so excited. By the end of the 6th inning the father was so drunk he no longer cared that his little boy was even there. The little guy wanted something to drink and was told it was to expensive but yet he had enough money to buy one more beer. I always thought baseball was a family sport.
You’re right about this father being a jerk.
But you’re missing the history of baseball.
Baseball was not a game run by financiers and corporate criminals from the beginning. Several of the teams were owned by men who built businesses, and the beer business was one of these. Also, before the Prohibition era and after it, if you did not drink a soda at any ballgame beer was the other drink of choice–not any form of hard liquor.
And before stupid television tsars monopolized airtime, ballgames were played during the day and attended by
people who loved and enjoyed the game; it was a family sport since it was cheap enough so one could take the family along, unlike several others.
And when baseball games were first televised in the 1940s and 1950s, beer corporations were among the first and most loyal sponsors.
Every year on opening day, since I can’t afford to attend a game, I have a beer to celebrate the return of the greatest game there is. Even if we have to let jerks into the ballpark too, it’s still the most interesting and the best game.
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