Basic Composition: Parallel lines and right angles

Institutionalized: One does not have to look far or wide (as the saying goes) to see both the compelling parallels between the basic elements that make up, then become "standards of excellence" for various national institutions, such as those schools of higher learning that stand the test of time and the ones that not only are attractive due to ivy adorning the same walls, halls that one's ancestors (now called "endowers" as the ones that have left vast sums of money to have their name on the wall) came, to embrace...the same ones that, according to a recent study in what psychologists call "cognitive dissonance" -- which, when applied to marketing some of the most exclusive private academic academies, found many willing to shell out bigger bucks for the more expensive institution ("it must be better, all those that have preceded us there, who are still paying off their loans must know what they're doing"). The parallels with some of our other longstanding traditions, such as those that "capture the interest of a large portion of the population and becomes a common cultural practice...makes the time pass agreeably...a pleasant diversion from working, studying..." Such as the one that we, as in U.S. came to claim as our own, which even as early as the late 1800's and then on into the next Century, a matter of public and private debate. Such as between Mr. Chadwick, who asserted that the game that was early on referred to as "base ball" (eventually made into what's known as a "compound word" by the English composition teachers) was actually a derivative of the Brit game "rounders". In walks Mr. Spalding who was highly invested (literally given the early photos featuring his equipment) in making it an American institution. Which, of course, became the focus of one of the earliest Commissions on conceiving such a national pastime. The conception and inception of which became a topic of both casual and more public, polite (yep, they used to be) debate. In other words...

Points of Departure: Which, in basic English composition, allows for a discussion in the content of one paper (sometimes, as we progressed in our formal ed. referred to as a "report") a so-called "rhetorical style" illustrating both the similarities and differences between two ideas, concepts...games. That was experienced as early enthusiasts on both sides of the aisle, as a double take on Doubleday. One version of this early "diversion" (see above definition, if you already need to be re-minded) that became widely circulated by early circulations had, due primarily from a letter to those appointed to the noted Commission, from an engineer (who are taught how to engineer and otherwise fabricate in their own formal ed.) named Mr. Graves, citing he was present when Mr. Doubleday developed the game in Cooperstown, in 1839. A time during which, "upon further review" (one the earliest examples of not-so-instant replay) Mr. Doubleday (imagine if his first name had been Homer) was actually residing at another institution, namely "West Point". And, while the National Baseball Hall of Fame can be found in Cooperstown (which also features a Field of Dreams called "Doubleday"), if you really consider yourself a purist, want to study up on all the lore and what's used by creative composers as "lurid details" on all the colorful characters, come to our home town and find it all enshrined at the Henry Ford ("Museum, that is") -- which is parallel but also stands out distinct, from Greenfield Village, where those wanting a vicarious taste-full of how it was really meant to be played, can attend the annual "World Tournament of Historic Base Ball" when and where our hometown "Lah-Dee-Dahs" valiantly face down their opponents while abiding by the rules according to Haney's "Base Ball Player's Book of Reference"  which is housed, guess where...? 

Back with more composition, such as rules and regs. Both, in due course...