A New York lawmaker is trying to make baseball the state's official sport
Baseball and the state of New York go back a long, long time. Sure, it may or may not be the actual birthplace of the game, but is home to possibly the first set of codified rules, 12 Major and Minor League teams and this "Hall of Fame" thing that you might have heard something about.
According to at least one lawmaker, though, that isn't quite enough: Last week, state senator Jim Seward introduced legislation that would make baseball the official sport of New York.
According to the Auburn Citizen, the idea sprang from teacher Anne Reis' fourth-grade class at Cooperstown Elementary School. As the class went through its New York state history lesson, students learned about the Empire State's official designations -- the state animal, for example, is the beaver.
Reis asked her students what other designations the state could have, and after learning that other states have official sports, the brainstorming began. From the Hall of Fame to the Yankees and Mets, baseball was the clear winner. Alas, the ship has probably sailed on State Mascot
