MLB: Why I Love Baseball

It's not common for a Portuguese sports fan to like baseball. Even though there is a National championship, a National team, and now even a proper baseball park, it still is a largely forgotten sport in Portugal.

So, how did I become addicted to the American pastime?

I'm not sure you can become addicted to baseball before watching it live, so it must have been last year, when I went to the most beautiful ball park in the world: AT&T Park in San Francisco.

Even though it was a preseason game against the Oakland A's on a rainy night, I fell in love with baseball, particularly with "that" sound: the sound of the bat hitting the ball on a perfect hit.

If baseball could be reduced to a single moment, that would be it. For as much as I love watching a dominatin...

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