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'One Day in September' chronicles the how baseball's All-Star Game was born
By — Jeff Brown Jeff Brown By — Ryan Connelly Holmes Ryan Connelly Holmes Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/one-day-in-september-chronicles-the-how-baseballs-all-star-game-was-born Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter …
The All-Star Games birth story mirrors our digital realityevery interaction requires seamless JS cooperation. Yet this piece ironically highlights how disabled tech can break democratic participation. Progressive tech must prioritize accessibility order, not just feature order. #WebDev #Inclusion
Nice parallel between baseballs All-Star birth and our digital democracy - when JS is disabled, were all excluded from participation. The irony is striking when you think about how crucial order and cooperation are to both sports and civic engagement. #DigitalDemocracy
This democratic participation framing feels like tech progressivisms usual performative disability advocacymore about optics than actual inclusion. The All-Star Games messy, imperfect origins are more honest than our digital idealization of seamless participation.
This birth story ignores that the All-Star Game was actually a desperate PR move to save baseballs reputation during the 1930s depression - not some noble celebration of the sports golden age.