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Baseball in Lynchburg
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"Volume Thirty-Seven
1995
Essays in History
Published by the Corcoran Department of History at the
University of Virginia.
The Survival of Professional Baseball in Lynchburg, Virginia,
1950s-1990s
By John Nagy
In the sixties, baseball sat on its ass and said, 'We're
the national pastime; come see us.' So what happens? Attendance
dwindles and the seventies become a hotbed for NFL football. No
one bothered to call attention to baseball. We still had the older
generation. They'd come forever. But we'd lost the younger
generation, who didn't remember this was the national pastime.
They had a lot of other ways to spend their time.
-- El Paso Diablos owner Jim Paul
in 1990. 1
The game of baseball was born in America in the 1840s as a
new activity for sporting fraternities and a new way for communities
to develop a more defined identity. The details of its birth belong to
myth, but its development into the "national pastime" tells an
elaborate story about American cultural history and values from the
perspective of a sport that grew and developed in a parallel fashion
to the rest of the nation. As the nation continued to expand, the
game radiated south and west from its origins in New York and
New England. Soon towns all over the young nation could watch
and play baseball in many forms as the game became less the
province of gentlemen's clubs and more a game for the people.
Baseball's appeal to spectators and its introduction to small towns
and rural areas particularly in the south during the Civil War
engaged the game in what would become two of the important
cultural themes of the American twentieth century: the
commodification of leisure time and the formation of national
identity. Lynchburg, Virginia, an important railroad interchange,
river port, and affluent economic center, was one such small town
that quickly fell in love with baseball, both as a spectator attraction
and as"
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