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.
Baseball in particular grew to be a National Pastime and big business. She describes the efforts of Baseball Club owners to modify the rules of the game, establish a National League, and attract a broad middle class audience. The class is about an hour and 15 minutes. Professor waugh good morning ucla students. Good to see you for my lecture baseball becomes professional. It wasnt too long ago that these subjects were controversial, if you can can imagine. Sports and consumerism, they werent important enough. It would have raised eyebrows. Like i am raising my eyebrows now. Sports, Department Stores buying stuff, will not anymore. Sports and consumer culture our research and written about, made boring 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 power, big business. We cant ignore sports for another reason. Its also cultural and emotional. T
The class is about an hour and 15 minutes. Professor waugh good morning ucla students. Good to see you for my lecture baseball becomes professional. It wasnt too long ago that these subjects were controversial, if you can can imagine. Sports and consumerism, they werent important enough. It would have raised eyebrows. Like i am raising my eyebrows now. Sports, Department Stores buying stuff, will not anymore. Sports and consumer culture our research and written about, made boring 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 power, big business. We cant ignore sports for another reason. Its also cultural and emotional. There is this tension between professionalism, big business, and the emotional tie that is exemplified by this letter, written by a baseball fan and published in a newspaper sports section. Let me read a quote. These modern bal
Baseball and rhethe rethinking the Civil Rights Movement. Let me start out with a confession to you. As long as ive been teaching the Civil Rights Movement, it didnt make sense to me. V a im a baby boomer. I was born at the end of world war ii. I came of age if the 1950s and 1960s, so why does a historian present something current . My mind changed in 2001. Let me tell you what happened in 2001. I had the great privilege to serve as moderator for a session on pastime, baseball is history at the organization for american historians. And the session was focusing on judec tyjeels new book. We had a great panel with stanley cutler, james marin from Princeton University and jewels augusty from San Francisco state, and then our surprise anchorperson, sharon robbins, head and founder of jackies 9 and the daughter of Jackie Robinson. And we had a great session. It was well attended. At the end of the session, i had the chance to chat with Sharon Robinson. And we were both concerned about a fa
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