《美国棒球》-公开课件.pptVIP

National sport: Baseball Entertainment：visited the stadium to watch the game :50,000,000; play baseball :10,000,000 “baseball culture”：There are more than 1000 baseball-themed songs . “Baseball politics”: U.S. President compulsory course. National sport: Baseball Baseball was supposed to stand for American beliefs like equality and the chance to succeed. Baseball is considered part of the American spirit. Books, songs, movies, plays, poems and lots of baseball terms have become part of the American experience. Baseball Knowledge two teams ，nine players each nine INNINGS（局） fan-shaped（扇形） stadium This is baseball（这就是棒球） Baseball Equipment In North America, professional Major League Baseball (MLB) teams are divided into the National League (NL) and American League (AL). Each league has three divisions: East, West, and Central. Every year, the champion of Major League Baseball is determined by playoffs that culminate in the World Series. Four teams make the playoffs from each league: the three regular season division winners, plus one wild card team. Famous Baseball Players in History * Baseball The game is traditionally known as Americas national pastime. The men who play it professionally are the boys of summer. Chinese national sport? Table Tennis American national sport? Baseball In nineteen-ten President William Howard Taft started a custom. President Taft threw out the first pitch on opening day of the baseball season that year. Almost every president since then has continued the tradition of the opening day pitch. Baseball “American Past Time” “Baseball politics” Well--its our game; thats the chief fact in connection with it: Americas game; it has the snap, go, fling of the American atmosphere; it belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly as our Constitutions laws; is just as important in the sum total of our historic life. Walt Whitman 纽约洋基队（New York Yankees 亚特兰大勇士 （Atlanta Braves 辛辛纳提红人队（Cincinnati Reds） 圣路