WRA "Football Red and Baseball Green" Response

What is Invention?

In this essay, the writer had to engage in many things to actually write the essay. Murray Ross had to know a lot about both football and baseball. Ross had to know and analyze every component of both sports and also know a lot about the history of the sport and some key players of the sport so I’m sure Ross spent a lot of time doing research.
What Is Being Invented
Ross is basically trying to say the spectator sports, mainly baseball and football have heroic and pastoral conventions that underlie them. Ross shows how baseball relates to life as well as football. Ross explains how football is an heroic sport and baseball is more pastoral. Ross also talks about how football has kind of replaced baseball and its somewhat symbolic in our society.
Arrangement
The author puts football in relation to baseball
The author does this by first explaining baseball and how it’s a more pastoral sport. She describes the game and how the signals and every aspect to baseball supports the argument. Then Ross transitions into football and explains how football is more heroic or barbaric if you will. Ross talks about how football is kind of like the military with all the physical contact and even the language.
Revision
Ross is saying that with football being the more popular or symbolic sport, it shows that our nation is forgetting about the rural vision of our nation and living a life that creates more challenges.