„… from the old Dodgers-Giants rivalry that exploded that August afternoon in 1965 before 42,087 fans in …” „… San Francisco’s Candlestick Park.The rivalry between the Dodgers and the Giants—the most intense in …” „… baseball history, perhaps in all sports—had lost little when it moved from New York to the West Coast in …”

„… baseball Yankees. Everybody who lived up north was a yankee. We were very opinionated. We didn’t like …” „… Chattanooga, and Calvin Griffith, who was running the Lookout baseball team, decided he’d like to sign me.They …” „… paper I wrote it down on promised this to us.”Judge Landis, the baseball commissioner, heard about it …”

„… , though Higbe contends that was not why he was traded.• 10 •Kirby HigbeKirby Higbe. National Baseball Hall …” „… , but they made the attempt anyway. Some of the baseball people didn’t like Larry too well because he’d …” „… baseball is as tough today as it was back when I played. I don’t know how they make so much money. Of …”

„… institu-tional rivalry: these were the props that would set the stage for the drama of the big time to …” „… in baseball, which began as an amateur affair but soon became a commercialized symbol of anti …” „… - Victorianism. Initially, a “baseball fraternity” formed as a group of sports-men assured upper- class Americans …”

„… the rivalry between the schools that the annual football game between the teams was dubbed the “Civil …” „… , wooden, baseball- style bench seats. Traveling from Knight to Gil felt like going back in time. (OSU …” „… credit cards, beer, cars, trucks and SUVs, rental cars, fantasy baseball, hardware stores …”

„… the drama and rivalry between two of the game’s most accomplished coaches, UCONN’s Auriemma and …” „… , and Nneka Ogwumike, but that said more about the sports media and its lust for underlining rivalry …” „… television deal with ESPN that also included the College Baseball World Series and the national championships …”

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„… San Francisco, Sunday, November 11-All-America 9, Chicago 6 The baseball tourists headed west toward …” „… , touring the majestic sites of the American West and playing baseball, they symbolized the drive, energy …” „… , personal and national greatness, and domina­tion by the fittest. Baseball sneered at gentility and embraced …”

„… influence over their game had been sizable. Baseball was popular in the islands; a bitter rivalry, for …” „… -All-America 10, Chicago 6 Dear Sir: We, the undersigned, members of the St. Louis baseball club, do not agree …” „… Browns' owner Chris von der Ahe, hinted that integrated profes­sional baseball was in jeopardy. Three …”

„… books because the game has been given less attention by American sports historians than have baseball …” „… similar to baseball’s Negro leagues. The chief repository of information on early Black basketball comes …” „… of Major League Baseball and the role it played in bringing basket-ball’s own integration.Finally …”

„… . Older boys then developed complex group games like baseball or football, which essentially acted as a …” „… more translat-able the game could be to all potential players. Games with smaller balls, like baseball …” „… advantage of this new consumerism. Baseball games routinely sold out, charging up to fifty cents for entry …”

„… rose from an impoverished Baltimore background to become the best player in baseball. “In times past …” „… , we had been interested in and excited by prizefighters and baseball players, but we had never been so …” „… violent opposition between the two nations. One of the other margins upon which the rivalry took place was …”

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„… enter directly, with minimal change, into American life.” Baseball was a game with Black athletes, as …” „… Black game. Both baseball and football featured position differences and assumptions about intelligence …” „… of years gone by. Although basketball is probably far more American than baseball in its pace of play …”

„… curtain, however, there was turmoil, as the team’s two stars were often at odds, their interteam rivalry …” „… Browns and Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Indians, had not won champi-onships since 1964 and 1948 …”

„… by the Cold War, as the American rivalry with Russia made besting the USSR in international …” „… of Little League Baseball. In 1973, Sports Illustrated presented a three- part series that indicted …”