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By no means the least of what the vast wealth creation of the 19th century brought about was the beginning of organized and then professional sports. Today, sports are a multibillion dollar worldwide industry and a major means up the socioeconomic ladder for people of talent, much as the church and the military were in the preindustrial era.

— John Steele Gordon  

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