{"642975":{"#nid":"642975","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Experts Hope Pent-Up Demand Will Revive Pandemic-Hit Industries","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENPR interviewed Johnny Smith,\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Julius C. \u0026quot;Bud\u0026quot; Shaw Professor of Sports History in the School of History and Sociology, for a story Jan. 8 on\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMorning Edition.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E1918 should have been a great year for baseball. A young player named Babe Ruth started the year as a pitcher but began morphing into a home run-hitting powerhouse.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJOHNNY SMITH: And here, what we see is the transformation of Babe Ruth from a dominant pitcher to a slugger just beginning to happen.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EROSALSKY: That\u0026#39;s Johnny Smith, a historian at Georgia Tech who recently co-wrote a book that tells this story. It\u0026#39;s called War Fever: Boston, Baseball, And America In The Shadow Of The Great War.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/01\/08\/954788643\/experts-hope-pent-up-demand-will-revive-pandemic-hit-industries\u0022\u003ERead the full transcript\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34600","created_gmt":"2021-01-15 14:59:43","changed_gmt":"2021-01-15 15:02:18","author":"mpearson34","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"2022 Diversity Champion awards","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/01\/08\/954788643\/experts-hope-pent-up-demand-will-revive-pandemic-hit-industries","dateline":{"date":"2021-01-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-01-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"602698":{"id":"602698","type":"image","title":"Johnny Smith ","body":null,"created":"1519232152","gmt_created":"2018-02-21 16:55:52","changed":"1519232152","gmt_changed":"2018-02-21 16:55:52","alt":"","file":{"fid":"229721","name":"JohnSmithWeb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/JohnSmithWeb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/JohnSmithWeb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":97065,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/JohnSmithWeb.jpg?itok=Qh5ePnxI"}}},"media_ids":["602698"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}