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Fans paid to attend a baseball game between two teams in the New York City area at Fashion Rack Course in Queens
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Was officially formed to govern collegiate athletics
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Babe Ruth on a Wheaties box
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was formed due to many Major League Baseball players serving in WWII.
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signed golfer Babe Didrickson Zaharias to an endorsement contract for $100,000 per year.
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Phil Knight opens Blue Ribbon Sports. In 1972, the name is changed to Nike
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is enacted, mandating equal access to educational opportunities for men and women.
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pays $60,000/year for the naming rights to the Buffalo Bills football stadium.
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the Summer Olympics in Moscow.
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Peter Ueberoth helps to make the Olympics profitable
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in Atlanta, GA is bombed.