Why can't baseball catch fire on the mainland?

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 97.54 meters, the midline length of 12 1.88 meters, and the distance from home plate to rear gear of 18.25 meters. Red soil is laid in the infield area, and the surrounding lawns should be maintained frequently, so the utilization rate is very low. Nothing can be done except playing baseball. If the football field is equipped with a runway, you can also run to exercise.

Second, it is not enough to popularize Chengdu. There is little publicity about baseball in China, and it is rarely seen on TV programs. This has led to the development of baseball. Few people know the rules, and the rules are complicated, so it can't be popularized on a large scale. Some people can't find a companion even if they play. Baseball is a team sport, and no one can't play it.

Third, baseball is relatively dangerous compared with other sports. Playing baseball requires a special venue, or there is no interference from external factors. What if the ball flies out and hits someone in the track and field competition, or the bat flies out and hits you? Secondly, it's hard for you to hit yourself.

Fourth, the equipment is expensive. Unlike basketball equipment, a pair of sneakers and a basketball can be used. Just buy a better one or two thousand. It is enough to buy a few hundred domestic ones. The price of baseball is higher, a pair of gloves is about 2500 pounds, a bat is about 1.500 pounds, and shoes are between 500 and 1.000 pounds. These things alone make many people flinch.

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

Baseball is very popular in the world, but it is strange to China people, and 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. It is also the fundamental factor. Baseball is actually a very expensive sport. For example, the cost of a baseball field is relatively high, with the investment in smaller amateur venues being more than 6.5438+0 million, and the professional venues being tens of millions. The state will not invest so much money in projects with weak mass base, let alone enterprises, and there will be no output and benefit after investing. Followed by equipment. An ordinary bat costs about 1000 yuan, special gloves about 1000 yuan, clothes about 780 yuan, sneakers about 500 yuan, helmet about 200 yuan, belt 1000 yuan, compared with basketball, football, table tennis and other mass sports about 3000 yuan.

The second is social factors. In society, people's awareness 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 can't tell baseball from softball, so they think it is the same sport. The school did not include baseball in the physical education curriculum, and there were not many professional venues and excellent coaches.

The third is historical factors. American baseball has a long history. It is said that the origin of modern baseball is a comprehensive evolution of cricket introduced to the United States by British immigrants and rounders games often played in Boston. 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 China recorded baseball as early as the Qing Dynasty, there was no systematic development process.

The fourth is institutional factors. In a country like China, every sport that can be promoted under the national system has political reasons, such as table tennis because of table tennis diplomacy, volleyball because of the spirit of women's volleyball, basketball because of star effect and league, and football because of league and money. Almost everyone has specific factors. At the same time, volleyball, football and basketball always follow the routine of sports school selection-city team-provincial team-national team under the national system, but baseball has never been established. Why are the United States and Japan developing so fast? Because they have professional leagues, so do we.

Fifth, human factors. Baseball is a kind of ball game characterized by baseball, which is collective and highly antagonistic. Known as "the combination of competition and wisdom", it pays attention to unity. However, in China, it is about personal talent. China people are introverted, have no strong desire for belligerence, and are physically opposed to congenital deficiency. China people must be very uncomfortable. 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 are only 1 gold medals in men's events. For a powerful China, this gold medal, China, will not be taken seriously. 1992-In the 2008 Olympic Games, Cuba won three gold medals, and the United States and South Korea each won one gold medal.