teaches a class about baseball during the great depression. for today, based on american history. and specifically today we will focus on what i call baseball during the great depression. a lot of things that have been ten when developing throughout the semester in one of my for today, we ll be doing again our normal game of a baseball as american history. but in specifically today we re going to focus on what i ve called the years of baseball during the great depression. this will incorporate a lot of things we ve been dealing with throughout the semester. one of mantras for this class is that everything need to know about american history, you can learn by sitting baseball. and we re going to see that inaction today so let me start with some of the goals for this lecture today. we re looking at the age of ballyhoo in baseball and i m going to explain what ballyhoo means in a little bit if that s an unfamiliar word for you. we re gonna start by examining some of the orig
History. And specifically today we will focus on what i call baseball during the Great Depression. A lot of things that have been ten when developing throughout the semester in one of my classes as you can learn by looking at baseball and were going to see that inaction today suddenly start with the things for lecture today, and looking at the age of baseball and until you what that is a little bit of that is not a familiar word for you. Also with journalism another media and this is in sports during the Great Depression romania pretty in relationship emerging in baseball and the media and you can see some of the origins of that during the semester but here kind of reaches the pinnacle and also depression on baseball and this tremendous event for the entire nation it happened we understand that event by looking at baseball then of course what is this and why did i choose that word during this era in baseball and how does it reflect baseballs response to the Great Depression. And then o
History. And specifically today we will focus on what i call baseball during the Great Depression. A lot of things that have been ten when developing throughout the semester in one of my classes as you can learn by looking at baseball and were going to see that inaction today suddenly start with the things for lecture today, and looking at the age of baseball and until you what that is a little bit of that is not a familiar word for you. Also with journalism another media and this is in sports during the Great Depression romania pretty in relationship emerging in baseball and the media and you can see some of the origins of that during the semester but here kind of reaches the pinnacle and also depression on baseball and this tremendous event for the entire nation it happened we understand that event by looking at baseball then of course what is this and why did i choose that word during this era in baseball and how does it reflect baseballs response to the Great Depression. And then o
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15 minutes. Professor waugh this is for my lecture baseball becomes professional. It wasnt too long ago that , if youre controversial can can imagine. Sports and consumerism wasnt important enough. It would have raised eyebrows. Sports, Department Stores buying stuff, will not anymore. Sports and consumer culture our research and written about, made during like every other topic by historians. Now theyre even professors of sports history. Why . Because professors have found that we cannot ignore sports. Why . Because it represents money and big our, big big power, big business. Its also cultural and emotional. There is this tension between professionalism, big business, and the emotional ties that is exemplified by this letter, written by a baseball fan and published in a newspaper sports section. Let me read a quote. Care modern ballplayers about nothing but money. They dont care about their team , or their city, with their fans. In my day, things were different. That sounds familiar.