According to Worsnops’s article “ Professional Athletes” wrote about how professional athletes raised their power, and how professional sports industries changed. In 1869, the first professional sports teamed founded in the United States. In the early era of the MLB, many teams collected to money for betting the games, so the professional sports were tool for gambling. However, the baseball quickly recovered its image because of Judge Landis’s efforts, and it greeted the golden era in 1920s. This article is very important to know about the Black Sox Scandal because it shows the foundation of the modern professional sports industries.
Question 2-3: What were the main arguments of the case? How do they differ from the previous antitrust cases in baseball? A month later in January 1907, Curt Flood filed a suit against Bowie Kuhn for relief from the reserve clause and 1 million dollars in damages. Flood’s arguments against Kuhn are controversial because he as an African American who compared the reserve clause to slavery.
In the movie “A League of Their Own”, one can see how the more sexist views of the culture in the 1940s and 50s in America was present in the Girls Professional Baseball League. “A League of Their Own” is a movie about what was once the “All-American Girls Professional Baseball League” which was formed when the young men were sent over to serve in World War II. One of the most obvious cultural views that this movie shows is the feminizing of the baseball players to make them “more acceptable and women like”. Unlike men’s uniforms, that include a full shirt and pants, they were to wear skirts that were very short, too short to play baseball in comfortably. This alone shows how this league was just as much about show as it was about the women’s talent.
Steeltown U.S.A.: Work and Memory in Youngstown is a book written by Sherry Linkon and John Russo. The authors, both experts in the field of labor studies, draw on a wealth of personal stories and historical analysis to paint a vivid picture of the human impact of economic change. Through their work, they explore the challenges faced by workers and families in places like Youngstown, Ohio, and the strategies they have developed to navigate a rapidly changing world. Throughout the book, the authors use some very good themes. This book also makes me reflect on the Brick Companies that were in Oak Hill when it was booming.
The Manly Art tells the story of boxing 's origins and the sport 's place in American culture. The book was first published in 1986, the book helped shape the ways historians write about American sport and culture, expanding scholarly boundaries by exploring masculinity as an historical subject and by suggesting that social categories like gender, class, and ethnicity can be understood only in relation to each other. In 2010 it was republished and features a new afterword, the author 's meditation on the ways in which studies of sport, gender, and popular culture have changed in the quarter century since the book was first published. An up-to-date bibliography ensures that The Manly Art will remain a vital resource for a new generation.
In essence, sports became developed and refined based on the fact society developed and refined itself in this era. In addition, it is important to acknowledge the significance of the stratified social classes at the time. Houlihan makes another point that the impetus for this process (between sports and bureaucracy) was within the ruling elite class and their desire to control and
Part One: The Industry Overview Exercise and Sports Science is part of the Sports Industry. The Sports industry is considered a market, facilitating several different segments; sports tourism, sporting goods, sports businesses and governing bodies. These sectors facilitate, promote, produce and organise sporting events and products . (West Virginia University, n.d). History
