Past time baseball as history /
Discusses baseball's history and the game's relationship to American society from the 1850s until the present day.
| Main Author: | Tygiel, Jules. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Oxford [England] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2000.
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| Physical Description: |
xiii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- The national game. Reflections on the rise of baseball in the 1850s and 1860s
- The mortar of which baseball is held together. Henry Chadwick and the invention of baseball statistics
- Incarnations of success. Charles Comiskey, Connie Mack, John McGraw, and Clark Griffith
- New ways of knowing. Baseball in the 1920s
- Adjusting to the new order. Branch Rickey, Larry MacPhail, and the Great Depression
- Unreconciled strivings. Baseball in Jim Crow America
- The shot heart 'round the world
- The homes of the Braves. Baseball's shifting geography, 1953-1972
- Populist baseball. Baseball fantasies in the 1980s.