As one of the most attractive sports, baseball is well-developed and welcomedby the common people. It has become the indispensable part of life, especially in thedeveloped countries, such as Japan, America, and Korea.Baseball, as one of the most attractive sports, is special and popular. It involvesteam-working, competition, coordination and wisdom. It is appropriate for theuniversity students to practicing baseball, owing to its athletic characteristics,team-working spirits and individual charisma. Meanwhile, owing to its popularity inthe world, baseball plays an important part in promoting the communicationbetween the universities at home and abroad.This is also the reason why baseball is regarded as a noble sport combiningcompetition with wisdom. Compared with the developed countries, we should paymore attention to promoting the development of baseball in our country. Shanghai,as the most advanced city of our country, should popularize this sport among all theuniversities.Methods such as looking for the files, polls, having a talk with the experts,investigation and observation have been applied to investigate the status quo ofbaseball in the universities in Shanghai in order to further promote its development.The thesis is mainly about the following points:1. We need more experienced baseball coaches, who are vital to the tuition ofbaseball. The status quo is that only a few PE teachers have a good command ofbaseball skills and have professional theories. Professional tutors with both skills andtheories are vital to the development of baseball.2. It is believed that those who coach the extra-curricular activities will get alower salary compared with those who take the regular PE lessons. It is difficult topopularize baseball among the teachers who coaches the extra-curricular exercises,which plays an important role in the promotion of baseball.3. The activities of baseball can be various, including the attendance of thebaseball course, setting up a club and the organization of the baseball team of a university. But only a few universities and collages in shanghai have been operatedthese baseball activities well.4. Many universities and collages baseball teams lack the fund so that theseteams have less influence than other clubs or leagues. The maintenance of theground and the appliance of baseball all need a lot of money. It’s sadly to see thatsome boards of schools ignore the demand of finance assistances. Lacks of money isthe biggest problems that have to be solved, or the baseball games cannot developrapidly.5. The participation of Major League Baseball promoted greatly thecommunication of the baseball teams from several Shanghai universities. It alsoaccelerates the development of baseball cultures on campus. It attracts a lot ofattention from students. Generally, the participation of Major League Baseball is thebig event of the development of baseball in Shanghai. |