2008 Woodie Awards
Opinion: Students feel the absence of baseball on campus
Dan Chismark
Issue date: 4/6/06 Section: Sports
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"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh ... people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come."
This line was spoken by James Earl Jones as Terence Mann in the classic baseball film, "Field of Dreams."
Every time I hear these words, I tear up. I can't help it. Something about them makes me weep like a little girl (or Adam Morrison).
The new major league season has started and I can hardly contain my excitement.
Optimism and confidence are the emotions of the spring season. Every team has a clean slate and a chance to make it to October.
Monday marked the first full slate of games of the 2006 Major League campaign, and, of course, I was ready to absorb all I could. And with the Cubs opener at 2 p.m., I was forced to skip class in order to catch all the action.
Baseball is America's favorite pastime and anyone who says differently is probably a communist.
How can you not love the sights and sounds of the game? The crack of the bat, the perfectly manicured infield, the dip stains on the dugout floor: They're all part of a beautiful real-life painting. And UTC is missing out on this.
UTC needs a baseball team. We have a softball team, but that hardly compares.
Schools should be required to have a baseball team if for no other reason than the fan's enjoyment. However, Title IX pretty much nixed any chance of this ever happening, so students here will have to look elsewhere.
Luckily, here in Chattanooga we have another choice: minor league baseball.
Major league baseball is fantastic, but unfortunately it doesn't always provide the best product when watching it in person.
The closest MLB team is in Atlanta, and their stadium, Turner Field, is about as fan-friendly as Iraq.
This line was spoken by James Earl Jones as Terence Mann in the classic baseball film, "Field of Dreams."
Every time I hear these words, I tear up. I can't help it. Something about them makes me weep like a little girl (or Adam Morrison).
The new major league season has started and I can hardly contain my excitement.
Optimism and confidence are the emotions of the spring season. Every team has a clean slate and a chance to make it to October.
Monday marked the first full slate of games of the 2006 Major League campaign, and, of course, I was ready to absorb all I could. And with the Cubs opener at 2 p.m., I was forced to skip class in order to catch all the action.
Baseball is America's favorite pastime and anyone who says differently is probably a communist.
How can you not love the sights and sounds of the game? The crack of the bat, the perfectly manicured infield, the dip stains on the dugout floor: They're all part of a beautiful real-life painting. And UTC is missing out on this.
UTC needs a baseball team. We have a softball team, but that hardly compares.
Schools should be required to have a baseball team if for no other reason than the fan's enjoyment. However, Title IX pretty much nixed any chance of this ever happening, so students here will have to look elsewhere.
Luckily, here in Chattanooga we have another choice: minor league baseball.
Major league baseball is fantastic, but unfortunately it doesn't always provide the best product when watching it in person.
The closest MLB team is in Atlanta, and their stadium, Turner Field, is about as fan-friendly as Iraq.
