Sports

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Sports entertainment history

• Notes and assignments

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history

• Mid to late 1800s only the wealthy participate
• 1890s better wages, technology, transportation
• 1890 edison invented kinetoscope vitascope to
  view motion pictures
• George Eastman - technology

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Pg 2 history

• 1927 full sound movie Jazz Singer
• 1923 Wilson sporting goods signed an endorsement
  deal with golfer Gene Sarazen
• 1918 Babe Ruth set records
• Sports/entertainment a regular in everyday life
• Great depression 1930s

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Pg 3

• 1940s relief from trauma of WWII
• 1940s Bill Veeck developed sports
  marketing-turned game into an event
• Owners of Indiana, White Sox entertained the
  fans with fireworks.
• 1948 Guttman organized paralympics

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Pg 4

• 1950s growth of TV, theaters, sports franchises,
  Disneyland
• 1960s Mark McCormack founded IMG which links
  corporations to athletesfirst was A. Palmer
• Larry Doby first Afro Amer drafted into
  American League

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Pg 5

• Adolph Zukor, founder of Paramount pictures
  produced moview and owned theaters appeal of
  dramatic stories and popular stars of the day
• 1967 National league vs American league a game
• 1968 Eunice Shriver organized special olympics

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Pg 6

• R. Arledge Wide World of sports TV show
• 1972 title IX
• 1979 ESPN started as a small cable TV station
• 1980s extreme sports
• 1982 becomes a media event to more than 90 mil?
  Superbowl
• 1986 Amateur rule overturned
• 1996 Womens NBA

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assignments

• Define all vocab
• Checking concepts 1-7 p. 72
• Notes from ppt.
• Worksheet 3.2
• Ch 2 and 3 report