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“KING BASEBALL, monarch of the American sport world, is sick,” a New York Times story on the disappearance of amateur and small town sandlots begins. Hundreds of thousands of fans attended the opening games of the season, and star players are making bank in huge stadiums. “Nevertheless the critics say that his Royal Highness is indisposed.”
The story is from 1925. But it read …
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Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/column/886115/how-mlb-can-make-baseball-relevant-on-a-fast-changing-internet
Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/column/886115/how-mlb-can-make-baseball-relevant-on-a-fast-changing-internet
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