For almost 30 years, until 1906, a game could be viewed freely, as it was considered shameful to take money for doing something the players liked.Granted, of course all sorts of people do not like their jobs, but it's interesting to imagine making a living and enjoying your job being mutually exclusive as a normative matter.
Speaking of Japanese baseball, I still remember when someone told me that the Nippon Ham Fighters are to be read as "The Fighters for the Nippon Ham corporation" rather than "The Ham Fighters of Nippon."
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They don't all keep Kosher. Q.E.D.
This is alive and well in contemporary America. This is often the underlying logic for paying teachers, day care workers, and nurses so poorly.
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