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The war years also saw the founding of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Baseball boomed after World War II. 1945 saw a new attendance record and the following year average crowds leapt nearly 70% to 14,914. Further records followed in 1948 and 1949, when the average reached 16,913.
Baseball, widely known as America's pastime, is well established in several other countries as well. The history of baseball in Canada has remained closely linked with that of the sport in the United States. As early as 1877, a professional league, the International Association, featured teams from both countries. [94]
Black Diamond has also been reviewed by The Horn Book Magazine, [2] and Book Report. [3] The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum lists it as a secondary resource in its lesson on Negro league baseball vocabulary. [4] Black Diamonds is a 1994 CCBC Choice, [5] a 1994 NCTE Kaleidoscope book, [6] and received a 1997 Coretta Scott King Award author honor. [7]
The period before 1920 in baseball was known as the dead-ball era; players rarely hit home runs during this time. Baseball survived a conspiracy to fix the 1919 World Series, which came to be known as the Black Sox Scandal. The sport rose in popularity in the 1920s, and survived potential downturns during the Great Depression and World War II.
But as for the book’s topic, Renna says he was pulling from his own “love of baseball” and his acting start playing a young baseball player in the ’90s.
The history of sports in the United States reveals that American football, baseball, softball, and indoor soccer evolved from older British sports—rugby football, British baseball, rounders, and association football, respectively. Over time, these sports diverged significantly from their European origins, developing into distinctly American ...
Click through the gallery above to find a history of baseball broadcasting advancements, and see the slideshow below for a recent collection of historical events. For more unique Brooklyn Dodgers ...
The Kids' Soccer Book and Medallion, Somerville House, 1994. Diamonds of the North: A Concise History of Baseball in Canada, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1995. (With John St. James) All I Thought about Was Baseball: Essays on a Canadian Pastime, University of Toronto Press (Toronto), 1996.