Spaldings visions of baseball and the racial discrimination

It may not seem like the most natural of connections, but our readings on Spalding's visions of baseball and the racial discrimination at Buffalo beaches do link together. They demonstrate the aims of national ideologies and the problems of putting those beliefs into practice. For your journal entry, how does each article demonstrate a nationalistic/American value in theory, and what were the problems or shortcomings in how these beliefs were acted upon when put into practice?