World War 2 affected sport and pro-athletes the same as any man in that day. Some were drafted into the service and many enlisted. Pro-sports games were discontinued during the war time in the Allied nations. Most of the athletes returned to their teams at the end of the war. In that era Baseball was the most popular and well attended sports venture before and after the war. Football was not as popular then as it is today. Baseball and the War made a huge difference for the Blacks in sports. Some team owners began to hire more Black athletes for their white teams.
The lines of demarcation began to fade when the team owners saw what the Blacks could do during the war. Some blacks however, who were on the black teams did not choose to crossover to white teams. Discrimination and racism did not get cured over night because of the war. The few changes made on the all white teams did not cause team owners to hire hundreds of black.
Team salaries were affected by the war indirectly. As the economy improved during the war and after the war and the depression faded away ball players began to make more demands of the team owners and it escalated until today.
Many communities chose to have women play on teams while the war was waged. There is a movie about this. Some of the women who played on the womens' league are still alive and great pictures of their games and teams. This was a spark for all female teams to become semi-pro, in many sports, beyond the college level.
It caused a flood of track athletes into the French Olympic team after all the running practice they had.
During World War 2, a lot of professional athletes were surrounded by men and grew a liking to them. Some of the men that were straight didn't like the "gays" to be around them. So a lot of the men left the athletic career.
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How did World War ll Affect th U.S ecconony?
Horse Racing was put on hold as well as many other sports in the USA, England and many other countries. A large portion of athletes enlisted to fight in the war and some never returned. Sports resumed after the war when many people had returned and the fans could afford to go to sporting events.
The cold war.
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due to world war 2 security reasons were cited concerning athletes , and hence commonwealth games were not held in world war 2
how did world war one affect the relations between men and women? how did world war one affect the relations between men and women?
They were soldiers.
what i want to know is how did World War 2 affect money for education and in Japan what did the boys do during the war