Sports Jpurnalism

Sports writing and journalism is a piece if literature written about sports. The internet is especially a very immense part of sports writing and journalism in today’s world. Sports at times can be the most opinionated pieces of writing in literature and as time moves on sports writing and journalism technological advances and improved communications such as computer, cell phones, radio, magazines, and television have helped sports writing and journalisms broad popularity change and grow in the past one hundred-and-ten years which helped the publicity of sports itself. Stated by Marlene Targ Brill in her book America in the 1900’s “by the early twentieth century, baseball was the United states’ most popular team sport. Boys and men swatted balls in empty city lots and farm fields” (page118). The 1900’s was all about baseball at the time. Back then there were two separate baseball leagues; the National League and the American League. Each had their separate championships until in 1903, when the champion from each league came to play each other in a best of nine game series. The Chicago daily tribune and the Pittsburgh press were in attendance and was the only source of coverage for the fans that couldn’t be in attendance. Brill also said her book “The united states had many professional football teams in the 1900’s” (page 120). Then went on to say, “But an even bigger sensation was the college football league. College teams played about eleven games in a fall season, and every major newspaper covered events” (page 121). Colleges would have, what they thought were the best teams go to “bowl games” at the end of the season. Major newspapers would cover those games and revenue would average around forty thousand dollars for each school. Another thing that brought a lot of spectators was boxing. In boxing, the best boxer around at the time was an African American jack Johnson. None of the white men in the U.S. would fight him. So he went overseas and fought the