What Is A Baseball Fan

Part I of Essay
? The word fan is an abbreviation of fanatic, meaning “insane”. In the case of baseball fans, the term is appropriate. They behave insanely, they are insane about trivia, and they are insanely loyal. Baseball fans wear there official team T shirts and warm-up jackets to the ....

Part II of Essay
.... his hitting streak and how many strikeouts the winning pitcher recorded. Their bookshelves are crammed with record books, team yearbooks, and baseball almanacs. They delight in remembering such significant facts as who was the last left-handed third baseman to hit into an inning-ending double play in the fifth game of the play-offs. Last of all, baseball fans are insanely loyal to the team of their choice. Should the home team lose eight in a row, their fans may begin to call them “bums”. They may even suggest, vocally, that the slumping cle ....