The Mariners’ 1-0 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers tonight has me questioning how much of baseball really is a team sport and even my own conceptions of history and academia. Let me explain.
There are many different frameworks historians use to understand history, both the subject and the discipline. Two of the most famous competing theories are the Great Man theory and the People’s History. To the proponents of Great Man Theory, such as Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle, who coined the term in 1840, “the history of the world is but the biography of great men.