National sport of America

Baseball is renowned to be the national sport of America. Evidence showed that it was difficult for people from different racial backgrounds to join in and play along as in the 1900s baseball was "...mostly played by American farm boys who were classified by their greatest barb, Ring Lardner, as barely literate" (Solomon, 1994, p.75). Clearly the difference in ethnicity did not aid the Jews in being accepted in America's native sport, and those with talents but from a subculture can only watch the games in agony.

Physical fitness and mental

Throughout history mankind has developed many activities to rejuvenate from necessary work for survival and at times these activities even act as a utility to enhance mankind's process of evolution. Sport has been one mainstream activity in which people from every social class find suitable to express their physical fitness and mental well being. As well it provides an opportunity for participants to socialise and understand, respect, appreciate another culture. However in early times leisure activities such as sport represented gaps between the different gender, class, age and ethnicity, partly due to the fact that individual sporting activities were initially designed by a specific group and the design did not take into account of other groups.