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Certainly we believe that on tee field of friengly athletic strife and
conbat opportunities for courage, unselfishness and the sense of belonge
ing are developed, We believe fone that quire is a transference from
the activities of the athletic field to the activities of business and
professional life. ‘Teamwork, cooperation and loyalties are developed
which help in later yearse

After every great war in America we have had a revival of athletic
sports and games. During the Civil War when we had huge concentrations
of men they learned to play Ono Old Cat which developed into our present
gene of baseball. Many men were out of work after the war and during

 

the depressio ig ofessional baseball was born. ‘Young men who could not
procure jobs on the farms and in the facteries turned their talents
baseball, So we could rightfully say that the Civil War formed the
foundation for our professional game of baseball in Americas,

In World War One the same huge concentration of men in Army camps
turned their leisure time to sports and games. The ererene legions of
Americans came back and there was not enough employment for all of the

veterans, so again professional sports received an emphatic impetus.

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Baseball was revivified and enlarged. A new professional sport was
developed, that of professional football. Professional football is dee
finitely established, and World War One was the incubator.

And now we are in World Wer Two. At the end of this war sports
prophets are seeing the interests of professional baseball spread to all
corners of the world. A world's championship now will we truly a world's

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championship. Heretofore the world's ehampionships, so called, have

   

been a national championship between the American League and the National
League. Professional football, doubtless, will be so magnified and