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The economic principle I’m exploring is Institutions are the “rules of the game” that influence choices.
My research question to help me study my economic principle is “What are the most significant eras in MLB history?”
The article was published on Netshrine, titled “Netshrine baseball timeline” demonstrates this economic principle by showing how the game has changed over time and how each era is meaningful.
First, the most impactful era in MLB history I believe was the Integration era. The integration era lasted from about 1942-1960. I think that this was the most impactful era because it allowed other African American players to try and play in the MLB. Jackie Robinson paved the way for all of the other African Americans, he helped form the MLB into what it is today and without him the league would not be the same at all. Robinson was the first African American to play professional baseball since 1884. He made his debut in 1947 and by 1954 most teams in the MLB had at least one African American player. I believe that this era was so meaningful because it opened up the league to African American players.
Second, another impactful era was the lively ball era, this era lasted from 1920-1941. This was called the lively ball era because the ball was changed from a rubber core ball to a cork and rubber center ball. This made the ball have a lot more pop to it when it was hit. During this era teams were scoring around ten runs per game which is fairly high. Also most of the batting average and homerun records were shattered during this period. Teams started to broadcast their games on the radio. This is why this era was so impactful because many things changed for the game and many records were broken.
Lastly, the long ball era was very meaningful to MLB history. Both pitchers and hitters excelled greatly during this era. For the hitters they excelled because of several new ballparks being hitter friendly. This era made the fans become more interested in the game because of how exciting the players were to watch. Hitters were putting up stats that baseball has never seen before. This era was significant because the MLB brought in a lot more fans than it did in the past, and the hitters and pitchers both played very well.
In my next blog post I will research the question: How do rule changes affect the fans?
I thought it was really cool how you talked about the lively ball era. I never knew that they changed the rubber core to a cork and rubber core, very interesting to know what is inside of a baseball.
ReplyDeleteIn future blog posts, you could give some stats about these eras and how the stats significantly improved.