COMPSTD 2367.08 Study Guide - Final Guide: Reserve Clause, Albert Spalding, Sports Equipment
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"whoever wants to know the heart and mind of america had better learn baseball. " Origin of baseball: myth of doubleday, cooperstown ny. Albert goodwill spalding: player, manager, owner, founder spalding sporting goods in 1876. Spalding vs. chadwick, wanting baseball to have an american origin. Spalding"s article on making baseballs america"s game, separated from england. Alexander joy cartwright: declared the inventor of the modern game of baseball in. Tygiel & ellias articles, more relating baseball and america. Coming in, starting with nothing, work your way up. Even the best players fail 70% of the time, celebrating success in the eyes of failure objectives of rhetorical analysis: Make the implicit explicit analysis: observation of evidence, noticing the small details + interpretation of evidence = claim. Goal is to advance collective understanding about a certain subject. Challenging an initial idea to force the originator of the idea to reform and back up their claim. Attaching reason to claim makes it an argument.