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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453151103321

Autore

Nathanson Mitchell <1966->

Titolo

A people's history of baseball [[electronic resource] /] / Mitchell Nathanson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2012

ISBN

0-252-09392-5

1-283-99454-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Disciplina

796.357

Soggetti

Baseball - United States - History

Baseball - Social aspects - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-269) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Prologue""; ""1 A Game of Their Own""; ""2 The Sovereign Nation of Baseball""; ""3 Rickey, Race, and ""All Deliberate Speed""""; ""4 Tearing Down the Walls""; ""5 ""Wait 'Til Next Year"" and the Denial of History""; ""6 The Storytellers""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""back cover""

Sommario/riassunto

Probes the other side of baseball history--episodes not involving equality, patriotism, heroism, and virtuous capitalism, but power--how it is obtained, how it perpetuates itself, and how it affects the game.