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Ahead of the curve : a history of the National Baseball Congress tournament in Wichita, Kansas,1935-2005.
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Author
Larsen
,
Travis
M
.
Title
Ahead
of the
curve
: a
history
of the
National
Baseball
Congress
tournament
in
Wichita
,
Kansas,1935-2005
.
Degree Program
History
Abstract
This
thesis
provides
a
history
of the
National
Baseball
Congress
(NBC)
tournament
in
Wichita
,
Kansas
, from its
founding
in
1935
to
2005
. The
NBC
tournament
,
since
its
inception
, has had an
impact
culturally
,
economically
, and
socially
on the
city
of
Wichita
, and to a
lesser
degree
, an
impact
on
Major
League
Baseball
and
other
facets
of
organized
baseball
. By
using
a
decade-by-decade
over
view
of the
history
of the
NBC
tournament
,
one
finds
how
social
and
cultural
events
have
played
a
role
in the
success
of the
NBC
tournament
, and how the
tournament
influenced
the
baseball
world
.
Raymond
"
Hap~
Dumont
, the
founder
and
master
promoter
of the
NBC
tournament
,
created
an
environment
that would
push
his
tournament
to the
forefront
of the
minds
of
Americans
. He
did
this by
using
the
mass
media
and by
instituting
unique
promotions
to
enhance
the
game
of
baseball
.
Dumont
also
created
opportunities
for
minorities
,
military
baseball
teams
, and
eventually
college
baseball
players
to
participate
in his
semipro
tournament
. This
thesis
,
based
on
newspaper
articles
,
Raymond
Dumont's
biography
, and
other
assorted
histories
of
baseball
in the
twentieth
century
,
argues
that the
success
of the
NBC
tournament
was
due
to
Dumont's
ingenuity
and
desire
to
succeed
.
When
Dumont
passed
away
, the
tournament
went
through
a
series
of
ownership
changes
that
initially
weakened
the
overall
economic
effectiveness
of the
tournament
.
However
, the
originality
and
tradition
of the
tournament
endured
because
of the
dedicated
employees
that
Dumont
hired
to
help
run
the
event
.
When
the
Rich
family
from
Buffalo
,
New
York
,
bought
the
National
Baseball
Congress
in
1985
, they also
purchased
a
Wichita
institution
, a
tradition
that has
endured
into the
twenty-first
century
.
Date Original
2006
Publisher
Fort Hays State University
Relation
Digital reproduction of the Fort Hays State University Theses Collection.
Type
Text
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
LarsenTravis_2006_web.pdf
Source
LD2652 .T5 H5 L37 2006
Language
eng
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