HIST205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Saratoga Springs, New York, Natural-Born-Citizen Clause, Thomas Wentworth Higginson
3 Apr 2013
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Until 1950, baseball teams traveled by train until air flight became affordable. Mass produced watches (people will be able to know when the sports games are to watch art a certain time) Telegraph (big because results can be known quickly important for the paper as they can make the papers quickly for the people to read the next morning with results of the games) Print media (largely dedicated to the educated elite) Daily newspaper (political news: weekly specialized news sheet. William trotter porter"s spirit of the times (1831) had to subscribe yearly. New york clipper (1845) and the sporting news (1886) focused on baseball. National police gazette (1845) covered all forms of entertainment: yellow journalism. The boston transcript, the baltimore sun and the new york herald (reported gossip, scandals, made up stories) Successful self-made men (farmers, business men etc. ) Evangelical protestantism: methodist and baptist denominations, special responsibility to women. Attitudes towards sport: rational recreation, private sphere of family.
