The first known American reference to what many recognize as our national pastime baseball happened in what year?
We Americans just seem to accept our national pastime, even when it lets us down.
If you listen to Callahan, gaming the system has become something of a national pastime.
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For this, and for disrespecting the national pastime with his alleged deceptions, fans want his contrition.
Searching for cheap flights is a national pastime and a whole subculture unto itself.
But the most heavily represented sport in the Sotheby's sale is baseball, America's national pastime.
Quite the contrary, maneuvering to legally pay lower taxes is practically a national pastime.
This has robbed Canada of its national pastime and many small businesses of their chief source of revenue.
"We had a tough time trying to take the U.S. national pastime to court in the U.S., " he says.
Then there were the major-league players, many of them uneducated Southerners, for whom Jew-baiting was a second national pastime.
There's no doubt football is our true national pastime, but hubris is hubris.
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Expressing contempt for reality TV shows is our No. 2 national pastime, second only to watching reality TV shows.
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Instead, from his opening remarks to his impassioned conclusion, he extolled America, its people, its culture, even its national pastime.
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In October, 2006, Sports Illustrated published a book that included stunning oversized photographs and pictorials that fondly celebrated our National Pastime.
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Nothing less than bringing back to life a once-great franchise and the image of National Pastime rests on these two things happening.
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He described gardening as a national pastime in his native country, and noted it is quickly becoming one in America as well.
History tells us that Babe Ruth left Baltimore, going forth to save the National Pastime after the World Series in 1919 was fixed.
Today, golf is the country's most popular recreational activity, beating out even the national pastime of hockey, according to the country's statistics agency.
Kelly Flinn, Marv Albert, Frank Gifford, Michael Kennedy and Paula Jones would think that our national pastime was not baseball but the Playboy channel.
Given that Iran has made killing Americans its national sport and sponsoring Jihadist terrorist organizations its national pastime, why should America trust the Ayatollahs?
Maybe this season the chroniclers of our national pastime will formally recognize what fans already know: Derek Jeter is baseball's MVP--and has been for years.
Anecdotal evidence continues to suggest shopping remains a favourite national pastime.
Iceland has quite an advantage here: Genealogy is a national pastime.
Such passes for refreshing normalcy in a country where shopping--with its rummaging through the wares and socializing while trying on the clothes--has long been a national pastime.
Even the national pastime had taken on a melancholy cast: in June, Yankees slugger Lou Gehrig had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, cutting short his extraordinary career.
Now the national pastime's pooh-bahs should focus on two issues.
Before football was invented and surpassed baseball as the national pastime, people actually spent time praying and reflecting about their week and sang songs with other friends and neighbors.
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While the NFL and NBA have largely caught up to the national pastime in terms of current popularity, no memorabilia item goes for anything close to the top baseball items.
Ken Burns gave us the opportunity to acknowledge that an unhealthy imbalance greatly impaired our national pastime, but the aesthetically pleasing architecture of the modern ball parks stimulated our curiosities.
Sports fans fall in love with people and narratives they don't truly know, understand, or investigate, all the time, to the point that the undressing of sports fables has become a national pastime.
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