Creating the National Pastime by White G. Edward;
Author:White, G. Edward;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-08-15T00:00:00+00:00
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Baseball Journalists
AS THE YEARS PASSED, it became increasingly important for the owners of major league franchises to give the residents of their cities every incentive to identify with their local baseball teams. Thanks in part to the reserve clause, early twentieth-century ballclubs had become, instead of anonymous groups of professional athletes, familiar collections of personalities. Very few fans, however, had the time or resources to attend games on a regular basis, and clubs spent a good portion of their seasons away from their home city. How did the franchise retain the interest of fans during the large percentage of time when those fans could not attend games? The answer, for at least the first three decades of Organized Baseballâs existence, came to be increasingly obvious. There were two principal means by which fans could keep up with the fortunes of their favorite ballclub: specialized baseball journals and the sports pages of local newspapers.
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