Professional Baseball and Social Mobility
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3440495 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steven A Rie, Steven A Riess (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 235 |
| Publication date | 1980-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/203781 |
| OpenAlex | W2325126792 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Professional Baseball and Social Mobility Professional sports in America, along with the church, crime, entertainment, and politics have long been regarded as valuable alternate avenues of upward mobility for poor and uneducated, but talented and ambitious young men. Contemporaries and historians have both assumed that sport was an area of American life where youths made it on their own, regardless of social background. Unfortunately, historians have conducted little empirical research to test whether sports have actually been an important source of social mobility. This article shows that professional baseball, the national pastime, was greatly overrated as a source of upward mobility during the Progressive Era when the game was at its unchallenged height
Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · American Sports and Literature · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1992 - 2010 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |