KIN 249: Lecture 4.2
Table of Contents
- Lecture 4.2: Baseball
- Objectives
- Mandelbaum's Three Questions
- Thomas Edison's Film (1898)
- The Traditional Game
- Is Baseball a Modern Sport?
- Is Baseball a Modern Sport?, cont.
- So What is Baseball?
- Sports Illustrated
- In the wake of 9/11
- "A Break in the Action"
- SI Flashback cont.
- Sports Return
- Mike Piazza on post-9/11 play
- Wrap-up
- Sources
Text and Images from Slide
In the wake of 9/11
Sports came to a standstill Tuesday in the wake of terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, with major league baseball postponing a full schedule of regular-season games for the first time since D-Day in 1944. (Ronald Blum, "A Sad, Sad Day")