Chicago Cubs: A Reflection on What Baseball Means to Me

Every year around Opening Day, I tend to reflect on what baseball really is.  The existential meaning of baseball, if you will.

To each fan, baseball can signify many different things.  And for each of us, what it comes to signify affords us a deeper connection to the game.

For me, baseball has come to represent many things, such as the beginning of spring, chess (but instead of pawns, rooks and knights, there are the players) and memories born on the old neighborhood Wiffle Ball field.

Memories of when my spring, summer, and fall days were spent outside with a plastic ball and bat, a great group of friends, and our Bleacher Report - Chicago Cubs
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