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经过一些调整，这个国家最受欢迎的运动从消遣变成了我们文化的一部分
你能想象一场没有传球的足球比赛吗？前传只是使这些比赛成为赛事的创新之一
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Can you imagine a football game where there was never a passing play? The forward pass is just one of the innovations that made these contests into events
The Forward Pass:In its earliest days, football was brutal, even deadly, with offense and defense smashing and scrabbling for a yard or two at a time. The Chicago Tribune reported that 19 athletes died playing the sport in 1905 alone, the last year before college football’s rules committee legalized the forward pass to prevent total barbarism. Notre Dame’s subsequent success with the passing game set football toward the more open, creative, full-field sport played today—still brutal, but more elegant, and much more popular.
Baseball’s Farm System:In the early 1920s, manager Branch Rickey realized that his cash-poor St. Louis Cardinals were “at a disadvantage in obtaining players of merit from the minors,” then a sprawling and ad hoc enterprise. Rickey’s Cardinals took over a minor-league team in Houston in 1924, and from there gradually built a system through which young players could improve over years, learning the finer points of a difficult sport while staying under the control of one team. It was a sound investment that made history. Soon every other team followed suit. A quarter-century afterward,Rickey signed Jackie Robinson to the Dodgers, integrating baseball. The latter milestone in sports history helped redefine American culture.
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