This presentation is the final project in a course I took called Creativity and Problem Solving. Through the use of a software program called "Super Decision" I undertook the question of whether or not Major League Baseball should consider entering the Las Vegas market.
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Session 1 will feature rifles and other militaria. Session 2 includes fine art, estate jewelry, rare American gold coins, sports memorabilia, ancient Roman and Greek coins, furniture and more.
This presentation by Kimberly Brown-Harden looks at more baseball history in Indiana by exploring the historical Negro League. This might be helpful to librarians looking for ideas for the Indiana Bicentennial.
Prominent Orange County, New York Estates will Cross The Block at EstateOfMin...associate14
Session 1 will feature rifles and other militaria. Session 2 includes fine art, estate jewelry, rare American gold coins, sports memorabilia, ancient Roman and Greek coins, furniture and more.
This presentation by Kimberly Brown-Harden looks at more baseball history in Indiana by exploring the historical Negro League. This might be helpful to librarians looking for ideas for the Indiana Bicentennial.
Facts gathered on the potential restoration of the historic Modisett Ball Park in Rushville Nebraska, which held baseball tryout camps for the Milwaukee Braves during the 1950's and early 60's.
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The Baseball Magnates and Urban Politics
In The Progressive Era: 1895 - 1920
Steven A. Riess
In the Progressive Era, club owners and sympathetic journalists
created a self-serving ideology for baseball. They encouraged the
public to believe that the game was one of the foremost indigenous
American institutions and that it epitomized the finest qualities of a
bygone rural age. Many sportswriters persuaded fans to regard the
baseball magnates as benevolent, civic-minded individuals, dedicated
to providing their fellow townsfolk with exciting and clean enter-
tainment.1 Professional baseball however was not really “dominated”
by such men, but by individuals with extremely close ties to urban
political leaders who were usually members of local political
machines. Ironically the national pastime which was said to exemplify
the best characteristics of American society was operated by men who
typified some of its worst aspects. In the period from 1901 to 1920,
seventeen of the eighteen American and National League baseball
teams were run by people with significant political connections. These
club owners included political bosses, friends and relatives of men in
what we could call high political places, and political allies like
traction magnates and professional gamblers. In boss-riddled
Cincinnati during the early 1900’s for instance, the Cincinnati Reds
baseball team was owned by a syndicate which at one time included
the city’s Republican boss, George B. Cox, his lieutenant, Water
Works Commissioner August Herrmann, and the town’s mayor,
Julius Fleischmann. The Baltimore Orioles were run by such men as
John Mahon, the leading Democrat in Maryland, Sidney Frank,
brother of a prominent city councilman, and Judge Harry Goldman.
And the Philadelphia Phillies owners included several traction
magnates, state senators, and a former New York City police
commissioner.2
The close alliance between professional baseball teams and urban
politicians was not unique to cities of any particular size or
1Harold Seymour, Baseball: The Golden Age (New York: 1971), II, pp. 62-64; David Q. Voigt,
American Baseball: From the Commissioners to Continental Expansion (Norman, Okla.: 1970), II, 107-
108; For typical contemporary attitudes towards baseball, see e.g., H. Addington Bruce, “Baseball and
the National Life,” Outlook, 104 (May, 1913), 103-7; Hugh Fullerton, “Fans,” American Magazine, 74,
(Aug., 1912), 462-7; William A. Phelon, “The Great American Magnate,” Baseball Magazine, 6 (Jan.,
1913), 17-23; Allen Sangree, “Fans and Their Frenzies,” Everybody’s, 17 (Sept., 1907), 378-87:
McCready Sykes, “The Most Perfect Thing in America,” Everybody’s, 25, (October, 1911), 435-46.
2The exception was Milwaukee, which was in the majors just in 1901. See Steven A. Riess,
“Professional Baseball and American Culture: Myths and Realities, 1892-1923, With Special Emphasis
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geographic location. Politicos were nearly always involved in the
operations of the local ball cl ...
This powerpoint represents a semester long consulting project carried out by myself and 4 other students for a local construction management firm named PJ Dick. Our project and presentation involved analyzing PJ Dick\’s proposed new business venture and recommending proper course of action through strategic analysis. This was then presented to the company\’s executive board.
This project and presentation highlights the innovation section of our IT Management course. This powerpoint shows the feasability and implementation plan for the future use of high technology to revolutionize the Wal-mart shopping experience. The project touches on RFID, GPS, touch screen Kiosks, etc.
This is a group presentation created for my Organization Behavior course. This project highlights leadership tactics and managerial motivation through famous NCAA basketball coach Bob Knight. The presentation also compares the styles of Coach Knight with Coach Krzyzewski and Starbucks CEO Howard Shultz.
This is my groups final presentation in our consulting project for the Nemacolin Woodlands resort. This was presented by our group to about 20 members of the Nemacolin staff and management team. The project dealt mainly with the optimization of the resort\’s ammenities through both market research, consumer insights, and strategic implications.
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This presentation represents a semester long research and analysis project for a local Venture Capital firm named Birchmere Ventures. My group conducted extensive markest research and industry analysis on the current and future use of solar thermal technology.
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3. Baseball’s Background Can be traced back to the 18th Century American newspapers were referring to baseball as the "National Pastime“ National League was formed in 1876 American League was formed in 1901 Dead Ball Era, rules of the game and equipment were developed Black Sox Scandal of 1919 First public gambling/betting case in sports
4. Vegas Background Discovered in 1829 Casinos and showgirl theaters first appeared in Vegas in 1931 Gambling legalized in 1931, rise of Casinos Let there be light… Hoover Dam supplies electricity to Vegas 1937 Organized Crime, building of more casinos in 1950s 1970-2008 Vegas showed rapid growth and it became the gambling capital of the world
5. Should Baseball have a franchise in Vegas? Been there done that… sort of. The story of the Nevada Dusters 1963 Conn Hudson tried to interest the NL in placing a professional team in Nevada Milwaukee Braves relocated to Vegas Hudson financed the building of Horizon Field state-of-the-art ballpark located on the southwestern outskirts of Vegas Vegas fell in love with their new sports heroes Team salaries/contracts proved to be a problematic Other problems players, took full advantage of the abundant nightlife A few scandals here and there Animosity with other forms of entertainment Experts said Dusters was set-up for failure Vegas market was NOT large enough to support the team
The popularity of the sport inspired the semi and fully professional baseball clubs in the 1860sWhite Sox werethe most successful franchise in baseball, Chicago baseball players were not paid especially well like other elite players on big-city clubs. The White Sox were owned and operated by a tight-fisted tyrant named Charles Comiskey, all of the players resented him because they couldn’t even support their families financially and were powerless due baseball’s reverse clause. Players became easy targets for gamblers looking to have games thrown in order to win bets. 8 of the White Sox players (Shoeless Joe Jackson) were paid $7500-30000 to throw games and they threw the 1919 World Series. The players were indicted and tried for conspiracy.
to entertain the largely male-majority dam construction workers. Called Boulder Dam later named Hoover DamFirst gambling license given in 1931 to Northern Clubby 1954, over 8 million people were visiting Las Vegas yearly pumping 200 million dollars into casinos. Gambling was no longer the only attraction; the biggest stars of films and music like Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Abbott and Costello, Bing Crosby, Carol Channing, and others performed in intimate settingsThe population of the city doubled every decade since 70s
Former MLB player turned oilfield millionaire He didn’t want to create a new team so he found a team that he wanted to buy and relocate the Milwaukee BravesHudson’s Folly was completed in 1962When the Vegas bookmakers offered odds against the Dusters -- as they often did in the early days -- Hudson turned it against them, saying that the "guys on the Strip don't want us to succeed because the Nevada Dusters stand for good, wholesome entertainment."