Editing Melting pot (section)

=== Melting pot "methods" ===
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| quote = The [[baseball field|[baseball] field]] is the real crucible, the melting pot wherein the rival races are being mixed, combined and molded to the standards of real citizenship and the requirements of the true American.
| author = W. A. Phelon (1910)
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There were a number of ways that the melting pot is considered to have worked throughout American history. For example, [[baseball]], whose unifying powers were first perceived in the aftermath of the 1860s [[American Civil War|Civil War]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Casway |first=Jerrold I. |url=https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=dNUkDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA1 |title=The Culture and Ethnicity of Nineteenth Century Baseball |date=2017-05-15 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-2596-6 |language=en}}</ref> was often said to play a significant role in [[Americanization (immigration)|integrating immigrants]] in particular.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Missimer |first=Katy |date=2019-03-18 |title=American Immigration and Baseball: A Parallel Pastime |url=https://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/the_histories/vol5/iss2/5/ |journal=The Histories |volume=5 |issue=2}}</ref> In New York City, where the [[Knickerbocker Rules|modern version of baseball began]], immigrants invented [[Variations of baseball|variations of the game]] in the streets at the turn of the 20th century in their rush to integrate themselves.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Baker |first=Kevin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OV_DEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA163 |title=The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City |date=2024-03-05 |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-375-42183-9 |language=en}}</ref> In an international context, the sport played a role in some of the United States's early intercultural encounters.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mania |first=Andrzej |url=https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=a7X2CwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA308 |title=The United States and the World: From Imitation to Challenge |last2=Wordliczek |first2=Łukasz |date=2010-01-15 |publisher=Wydawnictwo UJ |isbn=978-83-233-8280-5 |language=en}}</ref> Baseball also [[Race and sports in the United States|improved race relations]]: [[Jackie Robinson]] was a major black baseball-playing icon who crossed Major League Baseball's [[Baseball color line|color line]] by 1947, which helped to reduce racial segregation.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Black Man and Baseball: A Melting Pot Is Dented |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/05/09/archives/black-man-and-baseball-a-melting-pot-is-dented.html |work=The New York Times|date=9 May 1976 |last1=Voigt |first1=David O. }}</ref>