Scholarly Essay from the year 2011 in the subject History -
Miscellaneous, grade: 93.00, Vanderbilt University, language:
English, abstract: With almost utmost certainty, the sun will rise
in the east, set in the west, and Major League Baseball will begin
a new season in the spring. Such has been assured since 1871, as
professional baseball first complemented everyday American life by
virtue of the National Association of Professional Base Ball
Player's (NAPBBP) inaugural season. The formation of the NAPBBP
denoted a fundamental separation of amateur and professional
baseball clubs, and the eternal intertwining of sport and business.
This moment in history would more broadly beget a critical juncture
in the development of the modern American identity as this era of
the nineteenth century is characterized by a generation of citizens
who have only known an autonomous United States, thereby
distinguishable as the first purely born and bred American
population. With this new status came the need to comprehend what
constituted wholly American values beyond just regional, economic,
and social distinctions, the remnants of a fractious colonial past.
Baseball quickly became part of this new sense of American
similitude, labeled the "national pastime" for nearly its entire
existence. As baseball grew from a regional game into a nationwide
phenomenon, more drastic change accompanied, by means of money
permeating the sport. The five seasons of NAPBBP play from 1871 to
1876 transpired during a decidedly dynamic period of American
history. The societal identity formation occurring during the early
stages of the Gilded Age corresponds both in time, and essence,
with baseball's maturation process, culminating in a purely
professional NAPBBP. Through analyzing these simultaneous
processes, their relation to one another, and the notion of
baseball as a microcosm of American society, what characteristics
became inherently American, who had the power to actually establish
these alleg
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