3,257
edits
Changes
→The Sport Today
Financial problems occurred soon after, however, with a new Negro league forming in the 1930s. In World War II, many African American players were older and so they did not serve in the war effort. They remained and played, where African Americans working in factories and other work increasingly came to watch their games. In effect, as World War II limited the Major League because so many players left for the war effort, the Negro league proved to be a diversion for those in the home front. This likely helped setup the stage for the integration and raising of the ban on African American players in baseball in 1947.
Since the late 1940s, television began shaping baseball. As with many other sports, the spread of television shaped schedules and when games could be played, including night games becoming more common since the 1940s. Today, baseball continues to be dubbed America's pastime and with basketball and football is among the most popular sports in the United States.
==References==
