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Butchers, typesetters, draymen, bricklayers, and even clergymen organized baseball clubs. So did Irish Americans, German Americans, and African Americans. Expert baseball nurtured and deepened city identities. "If we are ahead of the huge city [New York] in absolutely nothing else," crowed the Brooklyn Eagle as early as 1862, "we can beat her in baseball." Fans invested their feelings in their professional representative nines.

Louis (Missouri) Brown Stockings. "Pals refused to recognize buddies, lovers became estranged, and company was suspended." Even in the late 20th century, in an age more offered to cynicism, the successes and failures of professional groups continued to evoke strong feelings amongst local citizens. For instance, during the 1990s, after having experienced metropolitan decay and demoralization in the previous twenty years, Cleveland experienced a fantastic civic revival fueled in part by the success of the Indians baseball group.

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The New York City Yankees, who in the very first half of the 20th century were the ultimate agents of the huge city, of the East, of urban America with its elegance, and of ethnic and religious heterogeneity, became associated with supernal success, while the St. actionpush emerged as the essential champs of the Midwest, of villages and the farms, of rural America with its simpleness, rusticity, and old-stock Protestant homogeneity.