Why do baseball honor their history better than any other sport.

Like the person before me, baseball is the national pastime. Baseball is the rock on which this country has sustained. Baseball also has many fanatics that believe that everything has to be remembered. It has been around the longest and the game has been popular for longer. Also, the statistics are kept more fervently to keep the most important statistics around.

Umm... because it has more history than any other popular sport in America. It's not called "National Pastime" for nothing.

Far more than in the lesser sports, baseball is a string of individual performances strung together into a team result. So we can identify the great ones, the good ones, the lame ones with relative ease.

And baseball LIKES to recognize its past. The NFL's entire concept of history is "um, there was a really exciting playoff game in 1957, and then Super Bowl 1, which was called something else, was played in the late 1960s sometime" and that's about it. The NFL only cares about champions. Baseball and its many fans and followers care about EVERYONE. It really is a little silly, but also immensely entertaining and mostly benign.