Blog #2

This week in the novel I am reading I have really gotten to see what not only what baseball was like in 1964 but what life was like there too. For example obviously everyone got paid less but what I didn' t know was that you only could pay one of your players $100,000 regaardles of how good others were. Today owners can pay as many people as they want as much money as they want. Another thing that I noticed in this book that demonstrates life in 1964 was the black players coming into the league. Beause previously they had there own league called the Negro Leagues. But in 1942 Jackie Robinson was the first black player to play in the Major Leagues. This was not only significant in baseball but all over the United States. It really changed how people saw African-Americans and years after when more and more black's were coming into professional baseball. More and more everyone was mixed together and forced to like each other. As a matter of fact some of the best baseball players from that era are African Americans. For example Ernie Banks and Bob Gibson. Overall this novel has showed me what life was like in baseball and in the real word in the 1960's.