A Baseball Fan

"A Baseball Fan"

What is a baseball fans? The word "fan" is an abbreviation of the word "fanatic," meaning "insane." In Webster's New World Dictionary Second Edition a fan is depicted as; " a person enthusiastic about a specified sport, pastime, or performer". In the case of baseball fans, the term is very appropriate. They behave insanely, they are insane about baseball trivia, and they are insanely loyal to their baseball team.

Obviously the behavior of baseball fans is crazy or insane. They wear their official team T-shirts and warm-up jackets to the mall, the store, the classroom, and, if they can get away with it, to work. Then, whenever the team offers a giveaway item, the fans rush out to get the roll-up hat, tote bag, or beer cooler offered that day. In addition, they cover their walls with items of every kind. A baseball fan will have his bedroom walls covered with posters and ornamented with caps and buttons and baseballs from games they have gone to. When they go to a game, the true baseball fans put on their team colors, grab their pennants, pin on their team buttons, and even bring along hand-lettered bed sheet signs proudly proclaiming "Go Dodgers" or "Braves are Number 1." At the game, these fans form a rooting section, always cheering on their favorite players and echoing every cheer flashed on the scoreboard.

Baseball fans are also amazed by baseball trivia. Everyday they turn to the sports page and study last night's statistics. They simply must see who extended his hitting streak and how many strikeouts the winning pitcher recorded. Their bookshelves are crammed full of record books, team yearbooks, and baseball almanacs. They delight in remembering such facts as who was the last left-handed third baseman to hit an inning-ending double play in the fifth game of the playoffs.