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Baseball . The Capital of Baseball . Fifties Baseball | PBS (2760 words) |
 | Discerning fans had an anticipation of fifties baseball: "This isn't going to be pretty — but it's sure going to be fun." Loads of fun, but the somewhat limited fun of a long fireworks display — lots of flash and crash but not long on nuance. |
| Perhaps that is one reason that baseball in the fifties, whatever its faults, formed from boys and girls then young more fans more intensely devoted to the game — I speak with the generational chauvinism of one who was nine in 1950 —; than were formed by baseball's subsequent decades. |
| Furthermore, the fifties were the years during which America became, in a startling rush, a wired nation. |
| The Fifties (1248 words) |
| David Halberstam has written an entertaining, complex, and penetrating survey of the 1950s, a profoundly formative decade which fifty years later, seems rooted in an innocence that never was, a decade that claimed to be the wellspring of American ideals and yet marked their first decline. |
| Fifty years on, we are expected to take what is given us, whether we will or nil. |
| The fifties were a time of great change as a whole generation came home from a war with more experience and ideas than they could ever have had staying at home. |
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