On this day in 1933, Major League Baseball’s first All-Star Game took place at Chicago’s Comiskey Park. The brainchild of a determined sports editor, the event was designed to bolster the sport and improve its reputation during the darkest years of the. Originally billed as a one-time “Game of the Century,” it has now become a permanent and much-loved fixture of the baseball season.Between 1930 and 1933, attendance at major league baseball games, which had skyrocketed during the 1920s, plummeted 40 percent, while the average player’s salary fell by 25 percent.

2020-4-6  The official athletics website for Big Ten Conference.

Fans who could still afford tickets migrated from the more expensive box seats to the bleachers, which cost 50 cents. Owners of baseball teams across the country economized by shrinking their rosters, firing their coaches and slashing wages.

Zeus poseidon hades brothers. Having vanquished his father and the other Titans, Zeus imprisoned most of them in the underworld of Tartarus.Then he and his brothers Poseidon and Hades divided up creation. (To this day, the guides at the 'cave of Zeus' use their flashlights to cast shadow puppets in the cave, creating images of baby Zeus from the myth.)When he had grown up, Zeus caused Cronus to vomit up his sisters and brothers, and these gods joined him in fighting to wrest control of the universe from the Titans and Cronus, their king. But Rhea hid the newborn in a cave on Mount Dicte in Crete.

Many teams also experimented with discounts and other innovations designed to woo back fans, including free admission for women, grocery giveaways and the first night games in baseball history.