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Obama's #IRS violated America's trust when it targeted GOP groups. It's time to make sure that NEVER happens again. http://thndr.it/1b0M7Vm

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Bobby Shantz MVP

In 1952, a pitcher by the name of Bobby Shantz won the MVP award.  He lead the leage in wins with 25, and had one of the lowest ERAs at 2.48.  He played for the Philadelphia Phillies.

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1950 World Series - New York Yankees over Philadelphia Phillies (4-0) - Baseball-Reference.com

This link gives a detailed description of the 1950 World Series.  The series was played between the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies.  The Yankees swept the Phillies winning 4 games in a row.

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Ted Williams Makes History

In 1947, Ted Williams won the high coveted Triple Crown.  This award is not given to someone each year, the honor is earned by a player leading his league in bating average, home runs, AND RBIs.  This award is quite a rare feat in Major League Baseball.  Ted Williams is one of just two men (the other is Roger Hornsby) to win this award twice.  The site in my source shows a list of all of basbeall's triple crown winners in history.

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Baseball in Wartime is the online home for everything related to military baseball and the players who served in the Armed Forces during World War II - 1941 to 1945.

This is an excellent link about Major League Baseball during WWII.  Many professional baseball players answered the call to serve their country in the midst of the greatest war the world had ever seen.  Many heroes were born during this time and a lot of them came from Major League Baseball.

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Baseball in the 1930s

The 1930s was a much different time in baseball than the Golden Age of the 1920s.  The Great Depression that started in 1929 took its toll on Major League Baseball.  Attendance thinned as fans could not afford the luxury of watching their favorite teams play.  Player salaries did not dip, but they did stop rising as they had throughout the 1920s.

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Baseball's Golden Age: Part One - The 1920s

"Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how ma...

This link gives details about baseball in the 1920s and why this decade was called baseball's "Golden Age".  It tells about the huge role Babe Ruth Played in this era.  Also, the invention of the radio helped spread the popularity of the game.

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This is a photo of a horse race around 1840. The link to the websight gives a little insight on early horse racing. It explains how plantation owners bought, trained, and bet on horses. Also, it tells how slaves worked in stables and also sometimes raced the horses. http://www.librarycompany.org/shadoweconomy/section5_1.htm

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This link tells the winner of the second annual Grand National Horse Race. The race happened on March 5, 1840. The winning horse's name was Jerry and his Jockey was named Bartholomew Bretherton.

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From this website, you could order some replicas of things that early republic Americans did for fun in the late 18th and early 19th centuries!

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George Washington on "Eagle" who saved Washington's life as I referred to in my last post. Source: http://lensofhistory.com/2013/08/24/warhorses-4-famous-mounted-companions/

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http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~jjgisondi/Sports%20in%20Early%20America.pdf

Sports were not popular in colonial America until more people began settling.  Different sports were popular in different regions according to the region's religious beliefs, economical stature, population, as well as other factors.

#10his210of13 #Treece #w1 #intro #sportandleisure

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