| Author |
Tygiel, Jules.
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| Publication |
Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
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| Description |
xiii, 258 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Call # |
796.357 T |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-245) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Baseball -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Baseball -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| ISBN |
0195089588 (hard : alk. paper) : |
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