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In studying 19th-century newspaper accounts of the victories of St. Louis over Chicago baseball teams, Gregg Lee Carter shows how the descriptions and hyperbole of the accounts

▸ revealed that sports was seen as entertaining but not having much symbolic significance beyond that.

▸ showed that politicians would be in danger of losing their offices when their city's teams started losing.

▸ demonstrated how baseball became one of the symbols that reflected a mythic self-image and bolstered St. Louis's claim to civic greatness.

▸ demonstrated that baseball was seen as less important than other sports in boosting civic images.
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