Word: ballpark
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...typical Red Sox home game, fewer than one percent of the fans are Black. Kenneth M. Richman '90 discovered this fact in researching his senior thesis, "Not Even in the Ballpark: Low Black Baseball Spectatorship and the Sources of Social Segregation...
Cheering on the local club allowed immigrants to join what urban sociologist Gunther Barth calls a "turbulent democracy of protesters" at the ballpark, all rooting for the hometown team...
However, a Boston Herald description of the crowd attending a 1903 game pitting Boston against Pittsburgh conveys a classless ballpark environment: "The vast throng that looked on as the American champions were forced down to defact was cosmopolitan in the broadest sense of the word. Side by side sat professional men and grocery clerks, ministers and sports, college professors and graduates of he sand lots, all bound together by one great, all-absorbing love for the national game...
...conjures up memories of collecting baseball cards; of playing catch with Dad; of going to the ballpark with your family on warm summer nights...
...have opened to address the particular needs of this group. Baseball could also play a role in this effort. Establishing Big Brother programs that bring older volunteers together with younger boys is one way to provide inner-city Blacks with companions for playing baseball or for going to the ballpark...