7. Baseball and Softball

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Most of my favorite images of baseball are not of high action, but instead feature kids and fans playing and watching the game they love.

Shooting America’s Games

Steve Busby, a former starting pitcher for the Kansas City Royals, summed up the sport of baseball nicely: “Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people; that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people” (Washington Post, 8 July 1974).

Baseball is played by children of all ages, and there are many variations ...

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