History of the United States II / Unit 4 USH2 0472 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Baseball and Dime Novels
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The idea
Professional baseball began with the Cincinnati Red Stockings in eighteen sixty-nine, and the National League had formed by eighteen seventy-six.
In practice
The first dime novel, Ann S. Stephens's Malaeska, printed in eighteen sixty.
Where people slip
New ballparks followed: the Polo Grounds, Forbes Field, Fenway Park. Cheap novels and ball games were entertainment a worker could afford.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
Unlocks
- Nothing yet depends on this.
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