What was the first sport to use sport management principles in the united states?

a. track and field

b. basketball

c. harness racing

d. baseball?

I believe the answer is C. Harness Racing

Sports management refers to the actually running the sport like someone who run a company that intended for profit.

Even though back then the game fulled of rigged race controversies, Harness racing was the first to utilize this management (since the early time of industrial period)