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
Thomas Edison's Film (1898)
Note: Watch this film from the link provided in "hyperlink" box below
Short film by Thomas Edison of an 1898 baseball game
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Lecture Notes
Let's begin our discussion of baseball with a short film made by Thomas Edison in 1898 of a baseball game. Click the image to watch the clip. Although you can't see much of the game in this clip, I'm guessing that what you do see looks recognizable: It looks like baseball which should tell you that the game of baseball hasn't changed very much in over a century.