My Love Letter to Baseball.

Baseball is about going home; it is the only game where you want to get back to where you started. When we start the journey of life, we don't know the rules of the world, and tosurvive we're taught to think and rationalize. Thus, we lose touch with our natural, inherent intuition that knows how to act from the heart.

When you play from your heart, you play from passion; Passion is what separates baseball from every other sport. No other sport holds individuals who hit a ball 3 out of 10 times as one of the greats – baseball is a game of failure, and just like life, those who can bounce back from failure consistently reach greatness…no matter how many times they had struck out.

In order to return America to this passion for the game, and in order to promote the greats of the game, the focus of baseball needs to be passion.

The passion of modern-day baseball stems, I believe, from the Negro Leagues style of play. Rube Foster, the President and Founder of the original Negro National League, instilled a style of play that was more fluid than the Babe Ruth “station to station” baseball seen in the Major Leagues. Rube’s style was all about being aggressive, double stealing, drag bunts, suicide squeeze, and even stealing home. It was about playing the game to its limits within the rules – to play with passion.

America is becoming self-aware, however there is still push back on any narratives that are based on race or racism. This is due to an internal dislike for the feelings those narratives bring up within themselves. The way around this is to promote the game through the lens of passion. 

- Joe Curtis