... corrected in 1901" said Dan Honig. On January 28th, 1901, Byron Johnson decided to start a team in Boston to be part of his American Baseball League. This team, the Boston Americans, eventually became the Boston Red Sox. They played on a field on Huntington Avenue. The big star player of the team ... Yankee fan to a Red Sox fan. The Red Sox were getting a little better under the leadership of Tom Yawkey. In 1946 they won the American League pennant. That year the Sox lost in the World Series to the Cardinals. Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green was the first African-American to play for the ... ...

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... out that the median age of theatre audience attendance in the cities upon which it focused "is rising faster than the median age of the population." 10 However, the Broadway League's most recent survey shows that 25 to 34 year olds increased by 3% from the previous season, which may indicate the beginning of a reversal of this trend in Broadway audiences. In ... of over $75,000, including approximately 20% whose income exceeds $150,000. American theatre audiences are also comprised of 83% non-Hispanic Caucasians, and are 60% female.14 The Broadway League's report was generally in concur...

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... cooperation. In the spring of 1916, Wilson joined the call for a postwar association of nations; on January 22, 1917, he called for a peace without victory and reaffirmed his support for a league of nations. With the United States in the war, Wilson hoped to have a stronger influence on the peace settlement. On January 8, 1918, he presented his "Fourteen Points", a comprehensive statement of ... Points; only his shrewd bargaining prevented even harsher terms from being imposed on Germany. Wilson characterized the Versailles Treaty as the best obtainable compromise and put his hopes in t...

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... cooperation. In the spring of 1916, Wilson joined the call for a postwar association of nations; on January 22, 1917, he called for a peace without victory and reaffirmed his support for a league of nations. With the United States in the war, Wilson hoped to have a stronger influence on the peace settlement. On January 8, 1918, he presented his "Fourteen Points", a comprehensive statement of ... Points; only his shrewd bargaining prevented even harsher terms from being imposed on Germany. Wilson characterized the Versailles Treaty as the best obtainable compromise and put his hopes in t...

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... was possible because Mazzei had a friend, Tony Perla, who suggested he could do business with a Boston College basketball player, Rick Kuhn. Kuhn, who had failed after two seasons as a minor league pitcher, brought in his teammate Jim Sweeney. Hill paid Kuhn and Sweeney to shave points in nine games between December 16, 1978 and March 1, 1979. Hill was the winner in ... the enormous influence they have on today's youth as role models (FBI, 2002). The NCAA, with the FBI, has enhanced communication lines with the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, the National ...

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... baseball. A luxury that we have come to accept as normal, night baseball was not initially thought of as a positive addition to baseball. Voted on in December of 1934, the National League owners voted in favor of introducing night baseball the following year in Cincinnati, Ohio . Major opponents of the decision felt that having night games would take away from the "purity ... to deny its success in Cincinnati. In the seven night games hosted by Cincinnati attendance was more than quadrupled as compared to day games. With time the innovation was accepted league wide, which brings up the ...

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... all around the world. Robinson, Jackie Jack (Jackie) Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1912 - October 24, 1972) was the first black man allowed to play major league baseball. On April 11, 1947, Robinson played his first major league baseball game (he played for the New York Dodgers in an exhibition game against the New York Yankees). Robinson played with the Dodgers for 10 ... South, in 1865). Washington dedicated his life to education as a means of obtaining equality. He founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, and the National Negro Business League. ...

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... quickening their movement up the beaches. This job was performed by the Army mechanics, who used whatever scraps they could find to make the cutters from. T. All-American Girls Softball League was formed in 1943. Started largely to provide entertainment for baseball fans whose beloved hero's had gone off to war, the ... league would eventually shift gears and become the All-American Girls Professional Base Ball League. XIV. Rating By the time Roosevelt was inaugurated on March 4th, 1933, the economic situation was desperate. Between 13 and 15 million Americans were unemployed. Of these ...

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... is that he is regarded as a top tier blackjack player amongst gamblers. While he was living in New York attending the Parsons School of Design and then the Art Students League of New York he developed an interest in blackjack often making frequent trips to Atlantic City.(6) Throughout the 1980's he was living in an unfurnished apartment but because he was ... on painting.(2)(8) However, he soon turned to sculpture with his inspiration coming from French artist Marcel Duchamp and German sculptor Joseph Beuys. After leaving Parsons, Ai attended the Art Students League of New York from 198...

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... people's roles were being determined by their merit, talents, character and grit'. By 1910, Harvard Professor Frederick Jackson Turner was influential in transforming this ministerial training school into an Ivy League institution, dominated by the children of a distinct upper class most Northeastern and mostly business. This class came to be known as the Episcopacy, after its predominant religion - Episcopalianism. The genesis ... people's roles were being determined by their merit, talents, character and grit'. By 1910, Harvard Professor Frederick Jackson Turner was influential in tra...

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... people's roles were being determined by their merit, talents, character and grit'. By 1910, Harvard Professor Frederick Jackson Turner was influential in transforming this ministerial training school into an Ivy League institution, dominated by the children of a distinct upper class most Northeastern and mostly business. This class came to be known as the Episcopacy, after its predominant religion - Episcopalianism. The genesis ... people's roles were being determined by their merit, talents, character and grit'. By 1910, Harvard Professor Frederick Jackson Turner was influential in tra...

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... . This ensured that world trade remained at a lower level than it otherwise might have reached. Some historians suggest that the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act, like the refusal to join the League of Nations, was a sign of isolationism (the policy of cutting the USA off from the rest of the world). Mass production could only work if there was a mass market for ... . This ensured that world trade remained at a lower level than it otherwise might have reached. Some historians suggest that the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act, like the refusal to join the League of Nations, was a sign of isolationis...

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... his love of physics. During September of 1975, he transferred to Princeton, which wasn't too far west and wasn't too close to home. He felt that the excitement of Ivy League expectations and the involved work environment for the students would help keep him on track. John had 3 roommates that year, Frank Kunst, Jed "Whit- Whitmore III, and Scott Meadows, all ... ...

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... open about her affair with Wood, and Sara opened Louise to the idea of women gaining full citizenship like the men had. In 1912 Louise joined the College Equal Suffrage League with Sara and the two quickly made a name for themselves touring around Oregon speaking on behalf of the suffrage movement. Once the movement was passed into law Sara divorced her ... ...

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... next few years she spent lobbying legislators, in addition to lecturing and distributing her newspaper. She founded a lobbyist group and set up a Clinical Research Bureau of the American Birth Control League to invent cheaper and more effective means of birth control. She was unsuccessful in gaining the support and management of doctors as she had hoped. In 1922 Margaret Sanger remarried ... ...

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... of the Convention moved towards a climax. Though they only had 170 members, and met in the library of the Jacobin club, they were extremely militant. It was a well-organized, ruthless league, which supported the Jacobin takeover and demanded that the Terror be rigorously enforced to protect the citizens. The Societies main objective was deliberation on the means of frustrating the projects ... ...

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... which have developed, however, has been even more difficult. The strong push for racial equality began in the 1940's. In 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first black player on a major league baseball team. A year later, President Truman issued an order to desegregate the United States Armed Forces. The Supreme Court ruled against the segregation of blacks and whites in public schools ... ...

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... for those who had been suppressed by the conservative traditions of previous generations -women, young people, and African Americans. To counteract these freedoms, new groups emerged like the Anti-flirt League, and on a much more sinister level, the KKK. The Ku Klux Klan The Ku Klux Klan (also known as the KKK) was a white-supremacist group who was anti-black, anti ... ...

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