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SUMMARY:Is Baseball Alienating Its Most Loyal Fans?
UID:109361
DTSTAMP:20260414T232000Z
DTSTART:20260725T143000Z
DTEND:20260725T160000Z
LOCATION:Grinton I. Will Library, 1500 Central Park Avenue, Yonkers, NY 10
 710, United States
ROOM: Will Conference Room
DESCRIPTION:Mark Stein and Seth Tannenbaum, Westchester residents and auth
 ors of new books on the class dynamics in professional baseball, will disc
 uss the long history of club owners catering to affluent spectators and co
 rporate sponsors at the expense of their middle- and working-class fans.In
  A League of His Own: A.G. Spalding and the Business of Baseball, Stein sh
 ows how National League founder Albert Goodwill Spalding acted to make bas
 eball palatable to the “right” people by blocking beer sales and disco
 unt tickets, that he said would attract the “wrong” element. He also i
 nvented the private box. In his book, Bleacher Seats and Luxury Suites: D
 emocracy and Division at the Twentieth-Century Ballpark, Tannenbaum illust
 rates how the class divisions that havealways existed in the purportedly e
 galitarian sport of baseball have changed over time and how those division
 s have shaped Americans’ understanding of the game, urban spaces, andthe
  nation.
URL:https://www.ypl.org/event/baseball-109361
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