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Title: Why%20study%20American%20Sports%20History?


1
Why study American Sports History?
  • Introduction to the course

2
Answer the following
  • How has Sports impacted your life?
  • Why do Sports exist?
  • Have sports always been so important to America?

3
Sports are important to every society
  • Why else would we dress up like fools in public?
  • In the case of Soccer around the world the fans
    may literally risk their lives to go the game.

4
Sports show society at its best and worst
  • Players from an opposing team carry an injured
    player after she hit a home run
  • The Malice at the Palace

5
Sports offers hope and relief to some of the
problems of society
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  • During The Great Depression, WWII, after 9/11,
    sports continue to offer comfort

6
As we examine how sports has changed, we will see
how America has changed.
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