Passage 1
It was a cold, rainy and wholly miserable afternoon in
Washington, and a hot muggy night in Miami. It was Sunday, and
three games were played in the two cities. The people playing
them and the people watching them tell us much about the
ever-changing ethnic structure of the United States.
Professional football in the United States is almost wholly
played by native-born American citizens, mostly very large and
very strong, many of them black. It is a game of physical
strength. Linemen routinely weigh more than 300 pounds. Players
are valued for their weigh and muscles, for how fast they can
run, and how hard they can hit each other. Football draws the
biggest crowds, but the teams play only once a week, because
they get so battered.
The 67,204 fans were in Miami for the final game of the
baseball World Series. Baseball was once Americas favorite game,
but has lost that claim to basketball.
Baseball is a game that requires strength, but not hugeness.
Agility, quickness, perfect vision and quick reaction are more
important than pure strength. Baseball was once a purely American
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