In his exploration Sullivan is critical of both team owners and city officials who allow the trend to continue. ... As the population was booming there was also the other boom that was taking place, the growing middle class in New York City. ... His decision to move did not seem to be at all motivated by the changing racial makeup of Brooklyn and New York in general. ... The mostly white middle class that had made up the majority of the population of New York was leaving the city for the suburbs in droves. ... According his book Population History of New York City author Ira Rosenwaike dev...

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Henry Benjamin Greenberg was born on Sunday January first, 1911 in New York City. ... By the age of 15, he was an all city athlete in soccer and basketball, but his true passion was always baseball. ... The only teams that scouted him were the New York Yankees, the Washington Senators, and the Detroit Tigers. ... Near the end of the 1930 season, he made his major league debut against his former pursuers, the New York Yankees. ...

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He was the recipient of the Joan Payson Award for community service in 1997, presented annually by the New York chapter of the BBWAA. Derek received the New York Press Photographers' annual "Good Guy" Award for 1998. He was the recipient of the Joe DiMaggio "Toast of the Town" Award in 1999, presented annually by the New York Chapter of the BBWAA. ... Currently Jeter lives in Tampa, Florida during the off-season but enjoys the New York nightlife during the baseball season. Jeter has become a beloved superstar in a city that can be difficult for athletes but the greatest place in the world...

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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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Chicago's diversity has been what many consider a major influence to the city's music scene. ... The only other city to have more than 4 professional teams is New York who hosts 8 teams. ... Chicago has been facing a problem with violent crime for the past few decades and the city currently has more homicides than any other city in the country. ... The city's murder rate has gone down for 2012 which is at 19 per 100,000. This number is still the highest in the country and when compared to another city it is more than triple the rate of New York (Kirkwood). ...

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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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Those who are familiar with professional baseball are most likely aware that Derek Jeter is the captain and leader of the New York Yankees. ... Derek's father would take him to see Detroit Tigers games all the time but that never changed his love for the New York Yankees. ... The Captain In Derek's first full season, the New York Yankees would end up beating the Atlanta Braves in the 1996 World Series. ... A big reason teammates look up to him is because in nineteen seasons, Derek has never had any media or personal life blowups while living in New York City. ... Jeter's Leade...

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Pauls Roman Catholic Church in Ellicott City, Maryland. ... In December of 1919 Babe was sold to the New York Yankees. ... In the past two years the baseball public of New York has fallen into the same habit. ... Patrick's cathedral in New York. Babe Ruth is buried at the Gate if Heaven Cemetary in Hawthorne, New York. ...

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He and his teammates from the New York Knickerbocker Base Ball Club also devised the first rules and regulations of the modern game of baseball. ... It gave an increasingly urban populace a park within the city, a place reminiscent of the simplicity that had once been. ... "Al Smith represented the New Yorkers who were born in the city under tough circumstances, then battled to the top. ... While in New York, Ruth established that "If living in the moment is a virtue, then he was a saint."" ... In 1946 the major leagues still represented only sixteen cities, none west of St. ...

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Soon after the war ended, big cities started organizing teams of professional players (Vanderberg). ... Hulbert's plan symbolized a nationwide assertion of the city of Chicago's role in professional baseball. ... All of his efforts also benefited the White Stockings and the city of Chicago itself. ... Johnny Evers, of Troy, New York, grew up with many relatives that played baseball. Before being signed to the Cubs, he played for a New York minor league team and weighed a mere 100 pounds. ...

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In the Spring of 1945 Jackie signed with the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro Leagues playing short stop. ... April 18, 1946 Jackie Robinson made an organized baseball debut with the Montreal Royals in Jersey City. ... They played in the World Series against the New York Yankees. ... He was traded from the Brooklyn Dodgers to the New York Giants. ... After many years Jackie was honored by being inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. ...

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In 1919 Ruth was traded to the New York Yankees for $125,000 and played in right field, taking the advice of Edward Barrow. ... The trade of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees was the best thing that ever happened to both the team and baseball as a whole. ... In the same year, because there were still three teams within the city, the rivalry between the Yankees, the Giants and the Dodgers was still brewing. ... This time it was New York versus Chicago but things started going wrong. ... Ruth remained part of the All-Star team until 1934, which also became his last year in New York. ...

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You would know that the Indiana Pacers, say, could use a good power forward, or the Kansas City Royals could use a lefthanded reliever. ... In the initial meetings at the Hotel Intercontinental in New York City, the owners' mouthpiece, Mr. ... NEW YORK (AP) -- Minnesota will not fund a new ballpark for the beleaguered Twins unless owners and players agree to a salarycap and increased revenue sharing, Governor Jesse Ventura said Monday. ... In New York, players and owners held a bargaining session but failed to set a date for the start of the union's grievance to block owners from scr...

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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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"Money makes the world go 'round." Sports could not exist without the presence of money. You have high paid athletes asking for multi-million dollar contacts, while at the same time you have doctors not even making close to that amount. There are corporation buying out sports teams, buying stadiums, and buying everything that has to do with sports. Someone may ask why they do this. ...

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Owens was congratulated and welcomed home by a ticker-tape parade in New York City. ... "On August 18, 1946, before twenty thousand people at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, Robinson made his debut with a home run, three bunt singles, and a pair of stolen bases. ...

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It was the first time that the Boston team faced a team from New York, the Highlanders, who were eventually the Yankees. ... No New York - Boston game would ever be meaningless, despite what the standings sometimes said. ... So, when he needed money for the musical No, No, Nanette, he sold the Bambino to New York for $100,000. ... Has it never happened, it is not inconceivable to think that within a few seasons the Red Sox may well have called some other city home. ...

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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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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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THE PROBLEM IN BASEBALL For over a century, the sport of baseball has been one of America's greatest national pastimes. Every spring when the start of the baseball season comes around, thousands of fans get ready to fill the ballparks and watch their favorite players hit a homerun or strike someon...

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Two strangers talking on the Number 6 subway train in New York will seem like life long friends when talking about their Yankees. ... Thirty-one cities across North America have the honor and privilege to claim host to a professional baseball team. ... While Ruth was playing for the New York Yankees in the 1920s and 1930s, his legendary home run hitting feats dominated the national pastime. ... Beloved by the New York fans, Ruth earned several nicknames, including the Bambino (Italian for Babe) and the Sultan of Swat (for his home run hitting ability). ...

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He tried out for many teams in the Negro League and was finally drafted by the Kansas City Monarchs (Kahn 67). ... In 1964, the governor of New York, Nelson Rockefeller, asked Robinson if he wanted to be on his presidential campaign (Elderkin). ...

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A team that plays in, say, New York or Los Angeles gets a lot more revenue from its TV/radio rights than a team from a smaller market such as Milwaukee or Kansas City. ... (The New York Yankees, for example, have a total player payroll that is probably three times larger than the Milwaukee Brewers!) ...

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A team that plays in, say, New York or Los Angeles gets a lot more revenue from its TV/radio rights than a team from a smaller market such as Milwaukee or Kansas City. ... (The New York Yankees, for example, have a total player payroll that is probably three times larger than the Milwaukee Brewers!) ...

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A team that plays in, say, New York or Los Angeles gets a lot more revenue from its TV/radio rights than a team from a smaller market such as Milwaukee or Kansas City. ... (The New York Yankees, for example, have a total player payroll that is probably three times larger than the Milwaukee Brewers!) ...

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