Many would say that baseball tells us a lot about ourselves as people and that it reflects on our past. Baseball gives fathers something to hand down to thier sons. It's something they can share together and bond with each other. Beside a father a kid needs some one to look up to like a hero and baseball has give us many heroes over the centuries. Barry Bonds says " people who save lives like firemen and police officers are the real heroes not Baseball or basketball players. The few memories that a kid has is when him and his father would go to the baseball game together or it's of them going out in the back yard and throwing the ball around. You can't get those experiences by just sitting at home watching TV. Kids have to be exposed to new and interesting things in their life and there's nothing more interesting then sports. Except many don't see
cans. Even if you were poor and couldn't go to the game you could now just flip on a radio and listen to it. With the media now you could know all about every player and the things they did. The media would give you an inside look at what the players were really like.
Crew being the most expensive sport of its time was the first intercalegic sport in America. Around the 1870's and 1880's intercalegic sports became established in schools. In 1869 the first intercalegic foot ball game was played between Rutgers and Princeton. In 1876 a sporting good franchise was formed by Albert Spalding. In the 1920's sports had an effect on businesses, fashion, mass media, transportation, communication, advertising and sporting goods. Some people would say that the 1920's were the golden
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