The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.
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But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts.John Thorn
We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions.
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Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.
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This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League.
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And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'
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If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.
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