Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...baseball's missing luster is due to more than the hard facts of growing up. The sport has disappointed Americans continually over the past decade, casting its players and owners in a neverending comedy of errors...
Aside from the physical challenge, the sport requires mental discipline, said Aaron S. Galaznick...
...hard to fight a sport that boasts 1.3 million free-spending enthusiasts and pumps $4 billion a year into the U.S. economy--much of it into communities that might otherwise be forced into economic hibernation. According to a new University of Maine study, snowmobilers bring nearly twice as much revenue to that state as do skiers. "Without snowmobiling, this town would be nothing," says Glen Loomis, mayor of West Yellowstone, Montana, which calls itself, apparently without irony, the world's capital of snowmobiling...
...Before politics, I loved baseball," Myers said. She said that while 50 percent of baseball fans are female, the sport has not provided any career paths for women...
According to Wanda Rutledge, deputy director of USA Baseball, 200,000 girls play the sport at youth level (under the age of 12), yet the numbers dwindle after that stage because girls are later deterred from playing baseball...