He spent a year playing baseball with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro National League. ... On October 6, 1949, Jackie Robinson scored the only run in the Dodgers 1-0 win over the New York Yankees in game two of the World Series. ... On December 13, 1956, the Brooklyn Dodgers traded Jackie Robinson to the Dodger's rival team, the New York Giants in hopes that Robinson would be able to boost the low attendance. ... After retirement he became a vice-president of a New York restaurant firm and the president of a land-development company. From 1964 to 1968 he served as special assistant ...

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In the 1840s, Alexander Cartwright of the New York Knickerbocker Club created the general field dimensions that are in use today. ... Because the Cincinnati Red Stockings were successful on their tour, in 1871 the National Association of Baseball Players created 9 different teams in 8 cities to form the first professional baseball league. ... A league which was competing with the National League, the Western Association, changed its name to the American League in 1900 and placed several baseball teams in eastern cities. ...

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Mutt drove him to Oklahoma City, which was 175 miles away, to the Crippled Children's Hospital. ... In 1948 a scout, Tom Greenwade, from the New York Yankees came to watch Billy Johnson the third baseman for the Whiz Kids. ... When the Yankees went back to New York to play the Brooklyn Dodgers in an exhibition game they signed Mickey to the team for a seven thousand five hundred dollar salary and it was the first time that any player had jumped from Class C directly to the pros. That season was good for the Yankees because they went on to play in the World Series against the New ...

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During the summer of 1989, it blistering heat had come upon the city of Baltimore. ... Ripken taught were children in the inner city who had no money to learn about the game they love. ... On July 17, 1987 it was his daughter's birthday and a big game against the New York Yankees. ...

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Twenty years later dozens of baseball clubs in New York and Brooklyn, had made what they called the "national pastime" more popular than cricket, and the metropolis had become the country's first baseball powerhouse. ... While city populations swelled in the late nineteenth century, and mass entertainment was born at places like Coney Island, baseball fans flocked to watch a game featuring individuals, isolated and surrounded by the green grass of ballparks. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Salary Management: Who Needs It? Salary management, in a nutshell, is limits a league puts on teams regarding how much they can pay their athletes. Salary management ideas have been around since the early 1980's. These ideas have been greatly disputed between players, owners, and league offici...

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