And started with a World Series game. It was intended to entertain the fans and maybe get them into the game when they were kinda bummed about WWI and a recent act of domestic terrorism. It worked. Other baseball teams copied. First at postseason games and on holidays. Then eventually at every game.
Now it feels like we're stuck with it.
But all just to entertain fans. And plenty of them seem to be entertained by it and all of the weird sentiment surrounding it. The hallowed nature of it all. It lends a bit of gravitas to the event. Ppl seem to dig that. I don't but I'm a dirty, godless heathen. Lol