People like sports for all sorts of reasons. There’s something to be said about the entertainment, the competition and the fame. Taking into account all of that, one of the things that connects a sport, in this case baseball, with life is the constant presence of storylines.
Those come in every shape, from a kid in high school who catches the spotlight of the entire country with his generational talent in Bryce Harper, to a guy who retires from the sport at an early age because of the yips, only to successfully complete a comeback several years later and become a major league closer in Daniel Bard.