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American baseball (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Baseball) in general went through an A.A.E. (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/AudienceAlienatingEra/Sports) in The '50s (https://www.columbian.com/news/2012/apr/07/forget-1950s-we-are-now-in-golden-age-of-baseball/), as the only place where the sport wasn't in a sorry state was New York City (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity). The minor leagues were collapsing due to the availability of major league games on television (https://baseballhall.org/discover/television-brought-baseball-to-millions), old stadiums were growing increasingly decrepit, the dominance of New York teams (particularly the Yankees) was causing fans outside New York to tune out (https://www.baseball-fever.com/forum/general-baseball/history-of-the-game/62267-is-1950-s-baseball-overrated), some teams were still refusing to integrate (https://thesportjournal.org/article/examining-perceptions-of-baseballs-eras/) long after Jackie Robinson (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/JackieRobinson) had broken down the color barrier, and the sport had no real presence (other than the aforementioned minor leagues) in the fast-growing "Sun Belt" of the South and the West Coast. All of this gave football (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball), both professional and college-level (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball), enough room to build itself up as a serious rival to baseball's status as "America's pastime". This ended in The '60s (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSixties) once teams (led by the Giants and the Dodgers) started moving to the South and West and giving the sport a real nationwide presence, along with the Yankees' own A.A.E. meaning that other teams (especially in the American League) now stood a chance. Of course, New York sportswriters (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CreatorProvincialism) — and documentary filmmakers (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/KenBurns) — are still likely to remember (https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomvanriper/2010/08/18/baseballs-golden-age-right-now/) The '50s (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheFifties) as baseball's "golden age" (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NostalgiaFilter), simply because it was the era (https://thisgreatgame.com/1950s-baseball-history/) in which the Yankees (https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1dgn58p) got the World Series rings they were entitled to, dammit! And if the Yankees didn't win, then the Dodgers or the Giants probably did.
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American baseball (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Baseball) in general went through an A.A.E. (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/AudienceAlienatingEra/Sports) in The '50s (https://www.columbian.com/news/2012/apr/07/forget-1950s-we-are-now-in-golden-age-of-baseball/), as the only place where the sport wasn't in a sorry state was New York City (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity). The minor leagues were collapsing due to the availability of major league games on television (https://baseballhall.org/discover/television-brought-baseball-to-millions), old stadiums were growing increasingly decrepit, the dominance of New York teams (particularly the Yankees) was causing fans outside New York to tune out (https://www.baseball-fever.com/forum/general-baseball/history-of-the-game/62267-is-1950-s-baseball-overrated), some teams were still refusing to integrate (https://thesportjournal.org/article/examining-perceptions-of-baseballs-eras/) long after Jackie Robinson (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/JackieRobinson) had broken down the color barrier, and the sport had no real presence (other than the aforementioned minor leagues) in the fast-growing "Sun Belt" of the South and the West Coast. All of this gave football (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball), both professional and college-level (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball), enough room to build itself up as a serious rival to baseball's status as "America's pastime". This ended in The '60s (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSixties) once teams (led by the Giants and the Dodgers) started moving to the South and West and giving the sport a real nationwide presence, along with the Yankees' own A.A.E. meaning that other teams (especially in the American League) now stood a chance. Of course, New York sportswriters (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CreatorProvincialism) — and documentary filmmakers (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/KenBurns) — are still likely to remember (https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomvanriper/2010/08/18/baseballs-golden-age-right-now/) The '50s (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheFifties) as baseball's "golden age" (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NostalgiaFilter), simply because it was the era (https://thisgreatgame.com/1950s-baseball-history/) in which the Yankees (https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1dgn58p) got the World Series rings they were entitled to, dammit! And if the Yankees didn't win, then the Dodgers or the Giants probably did.
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