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In China, it is difficult to find friends when playing baseball, but table tennis, basketball, badminton and football are everywhere.

First, the venue is limited. I'm afraid you can't find a baseball field in second-and third-tier cities. The standard baseball field has a large area, with the sideline length of 97.54m, the midline length of121.88m, and the distance from home plate to rear block of18.25m.. The infield is paved with red clay, and the surrounding lawn should be maintained frequently, so the utilization rate is very low and it is impossible to play baseball. If you play football, you can take the track and run to exercise.

Second, Chengdu is not popular enough. There is little publicity about baseball in China, and it is rarely seen in TV programs. As a result, baseball cannot develop, few people know the rules, and the rules are complicated, so it cannot be popularized on a large scale. Even if someone plays, they can't find a companion. Baseball is a team sport. Few people can't play it.

Third, baseball is more dangerous than other sports. To play baseball, there must be a special venue, which is not affected by external factors. What if you play in the track and field, the ball flies out and hits someone, or the bat flies out and hits you? Secondly, it's hard for you to beat yourself to death.

Fourth, the equipment is expensive. Unlike basketball equipment, a pair of sneakers and a basketball will do, and a better one or two thousand will solve it. It is enough to buy a few hundred domestic ones. Baseball is much more expensive, gloves are about 2500, bats 1500, and shoes are about 500 to 1000. Only this kind of equipment can keep many people out.

Fifth, school education does not support it. China is an exam-oriented education, and everything serves the exam. For example, basketball and football can be trained as special students, but there is no baseball in either the senior high school entrance examination or the college entrance examination, which has become a limiting factor.

Baseball is very popular in the world, but it is strange to China people. Even the simple rules are not clear. For most people in China, it is difficult to get in touch with baseball, and even some baseball games can't be seen, let alone playing baseball.

One is the money factor. Baseball is actually a very expensive sport. For example, the cost of a baseball stadium is relatively high, with a smaller amateur venue investment of more than 1 10,000 and a professional venue of tens of millions. The state will not invest so much money in projects with weak mass base, and neither will enterprises. If they invest, there will be no output and income. Followed by equipment. An ordinary bat is about 1000 yuan, special gloves are about 1000 yuan, clothes are about 7800 yuan, sneakers are about 5600 yuan, helmets are above 200 yuan, belts are about 1000 yuan, and the whole set is about 3000 yuan. Compared with mass sports such as basketball, football and table tennis, the investment of 1000 yuan is indeed a bit high.

Second, social factors. In society, people's understanding of baseball is too low. An unofficial data survey shows that people's basic understanding of baseball is less than 0. 1%, and many people regard baseball and softball as the same sport. Baseball is not included in the physical education curriculum, with few professional venues and excellent coaches.

Third, historical factors. American baseball has a long history. The origin of modern baseball is said to be a comprehensive evolution of cricket introduced to the United States by British immigrants, and Boston rounders often play here. After several evolutions, there were many different names. It was not until A.D. 1839 that the sport was named baseball and began to be implemented. Modern baseball originated in England and developed in America. Although baseball was recorded in China as early as the Qing Dynasty, there was no systematic development process.

Fourth, institutional factors. In a country like China, every sport that can be promoted under the national system has political reasons. For example, table tennis is due to table tennis diplomacy, volleyball is due to the spirit of women's volleyball, basketball is due to star effect and league, and football is due to league and money, almost all of which have specific factors. At the same time, volleyball, football and basketball have always followed the selection routine of sports schools under the national system-city team-provincial team-national team, but baseball has never been established. Why are the United States and Japan developing rapidly? Because they have professional leagues, we don't.

Fifth, human factors. Baseball is a ball game characterized by baseball, which is collective and antagonistic. Known as "the combination of competition and wisdom", it pays attention to unity. However, in China, all attention is focused on individual talents. China people are introverted and have no strong desire for belligerence, so they are not suitable for physical confrontation. Americans and Japanese are very militant, so they are very popular and are called "national balls".

Sixth, specific factors. The Olympic Games is a war without smoke in modern society, and the number of gold medals is one of the important symbols to measure a country's strength. Baseball missed 20 12 and 20 16 Olympic Games, and returned to the Olympic Games in 2020. But there is only one gold medal in the men's event in the competition. For a strong China, this gold medal will not be valued by China. 1992 to the 2008 Olympic Games, Cuba won three gold medals, and the United States and South Korea each won 1 gold medal.

Bian Xiao has been exposed to sports since he was a child, and he is considered a sports student. He played football as a child, basketball in high school and badminton now. He is quite familiar with mass sports. The types of sports propaganda in China are too single and there are fewer facilities. Up to now, whether it is football, basketball, badminton, table tennis, etc. The space is pitiful, most of them are charged, and no one cares about the free facilities. There are so many universities in China that several universities have baseball fields. You can think about it. Only a few. In a word, although baseball is in the ascendant in China, it will still break out in the foreseeable time.

The reason why baseball is not popular in China is that the ideology in the past opposed this kind of sports from the United States, Japanese and other capitalist countries, and baseball was replaced by basketball, football and other sports. In addition, CCTV first launched a sports league like Serie A, which led to the preconceived football culture in China and quickly occupied the market.

Compared with football and basketball, Asians' physical fitness is more suitable for baseball, which combines physical strength with mental strength and emphasizes flexibility. With the increasingly close cultural exchanges between China, the United States and Japan, and the vigorous development of sports in China, more and more people will participate in this sport. Because there is a lack of baseball culture, venues, echelons, players and corresponding appeal in China. Perhaps the most important thing is the lack of motivation to play baseball. Unlike playing with jade, China has a history of jade culture for thousands of years. China people have an indescribable beauty for jade culture, especially jade. Commonly known as "gold is priceless" and "beauty is like jade" ... is the best example.

Why is baseball so small? The key is communication and facilities. These two problems are the important reasons why baseball rarely exists in China. At the end of this article, I hope that there will be more and more sports events in China and the sports level of the people in China will be higher and higher. China will not only increase the number of gold medals, but also win more.