Risky Business

Risky Business

the Civil War, many newspapers covered sports, yet some papers did so reluctantly. New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley, for example, once gave six columns to a prize fight, but added an editorial denouncing the brutality of the boxing match. As sports news drew more readers, sportswriters gained influence. Baseball writer Henry Chadwick (1824- 1908) helped create the National League (which in 1876 became the first organization of professional sports clubs in the United States), and also founded...

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