However , this was hardly the case during the second halfof the nineteenth - century as many popular sports were structurally different from baseball .
If congruence exists between work values and leisure styles , popular participatory and spectator sports should share common characteristics .
This was hardly the case during the second halfof the nineteenth - century as many popular sports were structurally different from baseball .
If congruence exists between work values and leisure styles , popular participatory and spectator sports should share common characteristics .