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Sign Up. Travel Guides. Videos Beyond Hollywood Hungerlust Pioneers of love. Give us feedback. Read Next View. Hotel Casa San Agustin. Atiq Boutique Hotel. During the s, perhaps baseball's glory days, the baseball establishment bitterly fought integration. In , when Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to play in the major leagues, he endured plenty of racism: separate and unequal facilities, taunts, and death threats. In the South, such treatment met African-American players into the s.
There are other reasons for baseball's dwindling popularity. Beyond the ever-increasing competition from other sports, one strike against the game has been ongoing labor problems, says Dyreson.
The baseball strike was the third in 22 years and led to baseball becoming the first sport in history to lose its post-season to a labor dispute. Another strike against America's pastime may be the sheer pace of today's society. How many times have you heard people complain that baseball is boring?
Blame TV, Dyreson says. Many fans find faster-paced games like football and basketball are better-suited for television. Baseball shines on radio, as a listener can do other things and still enjoy the game playing in the background, Dyreson suggests. In the s, he adds, everybody played baseball. Now, soccer reigns. American adults choose football to watch, but when it comes to playing, the choice is soccer.
But don't count baseball out yet, he says. America exported the game to Latin America in the late 19th century and today in countries like the Dominican Republic and Mexico, baseball enjoys tremendous popularity. Most Latin American youth grow up playing the game, which has become their national pastime. There are several sports and physical activities one might study to obtain a fuller picture of U. The problem of asserting exceptional status for baseball in the study of sport and American history is exacerbated when the baseball in question becomes nearly synonymous with organized, professional, and subsequently Major League Baseball, which leaves out entirely or pushes to the margins several communities and groups that play ball.
African Americans and black baseball are granted secondary status in many of these works, and it is hard to contend otherwise about Baseball and American Culture.
Rossi characterizes black baseball organizers, players, and stars with a lens gazing from the center outward, missing much of what Cat Ariail referred to as the rich, complex, and contradictory history of black baseball. In regard to Latin ballplayers, the work repeats the misnomer of their status in the highest levels of the sport as a recent, emerging trend. As mentioned, women receive passing reference, and there is miniscule or no attention to youth, high school, community or college baseball.
But there is also a steady drumbeat of takes on baseball and less explored topics. To borrow language from baseball and advanced analytics, Rossi has laid down a bunt rather than try to hit through the shift. From there, readers can seek what else the game, and the scholarship on it, reflects, refracts, diffracts, inverts, diverts and reverberates about America.
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