Baseball As the National Pastime: A Fiction Whose Time Is Past

Abstract

This article argues that ‘baseball-as-the-national-pastime' is a fine example of the ‘narrative construction of reality' concept advanced by psychologist Jerome Bruner. That is, baseball's endlessly self-pronounced, fictional claim to being the American ‘national-pastime' has run its course. By this late date, it is exhausted but not dead, sacked by the National Football League and many other sports and pastimes in an increasingly fragmented, heterogeneous culture.

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