1. The Influence of Professional Sports in Pittsburgh
... , community works, promotional ventures, and personal interviews. As an extra incentive toward excellence, each team offers athletic scholarships to exceptional high school athletes, to go forward and achieve at the college, and the game, of their choice. Once the developing players have reached the collegiate level, they are spurned on with prospects of drafting and becoming members of the Pittsburgh farm ... teams that send players from the minor professional leagues to the majors. The college players realize their chances to work with men they have idolized, and the idea of becoming a...
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