was guided as other businesses. Baseball did not react to the times any differently than other industry. In an era that called for and approved corporate consolidation, professional baseball consolidated and became a one league monopoly. (Synder, 11) To avoid any connection as a trust or monopoly, the baseball owners dissociated themselves from other corporate trusts by announcing their sporting business as the Anational game@ or Anational pastime.@ (Synder, 11)
             The successes of the owner=s in their propaganda establishing baseball as a sport run by sportsman, not a business run by businessman was accepted by the majority of the public. However, the concept of baseball=s owners intention was misleading. As The Sporting News said in 1904, Adon=t for a minute think there are any of the club owners in baseball for the sport.@ (Synder, 12)
             With the passing of the Sherman Act, some of the great trusts corporations were being investigated. Professional baseball, maybe because of its ability to hide its business aspects through its successfu
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