title: You Bet Your Life: A Playful Look at the Sports and Recreation of the Corporate American Life
author: D W Amos
description: From the Northeast, D. W. Amos has worked and consulted with a variety of companies  from small business to Fortune 500  for the past 20 years. She earned an MBA in International Business from the University of South Carolina and is an Information Technology executive now living in Utah's Silicon Slopes. Facebook.com/DWAmosAuthor
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  Diversities of American Life
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Diversities of American Life
  
  
  ### Charles Dudley Warner
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This is a very interesting age. Within the memory of men not yet come to
  
  
  middle life the time of the trotting horse has been reduced from two
  
  
  minutes forty seconds to two minutes eight and a quarter seconds. During
  
  
  the past fifteen years a universal and wholesome pastime of boys has been
  
  
  developed into a great national industry, thoroughly organized and almost
  
  
  altogether relegated to professional hands, no longer the exercise of the
  
  
  million but a spectacle for the million, and a game which rivals the
  
  
  Stock Exchange as a means of winning money on the difference of opinion
  
  
  as to the skill of contending operators.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The newspapers of the country--pretty accurate and sad indicators of the
  
  
  popular taste