text: why is baseball considered the national past time (in the us)? i only ask because predominently it is only played in the summer?  : 0 ) the one constant through all the years has been baseball. america has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. it has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. but baseball has marked the time. this field, this game: it's a part of our past. it reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again.