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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453173803321

Autore

Seymour Harold

Titolo

Baseball . Volume III The people's game / / Harold Seymour

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1990

©1990

ISBN

0-19-987926-5

9786610605644

1-280-60564-2

0-19-802096-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (672 p.)

Disciplina

796.357/09

Soggetti

Baseball - 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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 Sandlot and Cow Pasture; 2 Double Curves and Magic Bats; 3 Every Mother Ought to Rejoice; 4 Scrub Ball Is Not Enough; 5 From Sandlot to Municipal Diamond; 6 New Sponsors and Old; 7 A Sure Way to a Boy's Heart; 8 Boys' Baseball in Midpassage; 9 Baseball Goes to College; 10 The Principal College Game; 11 Husky Muckers Intrude; 12 College or Kindergarten; 13 Down-Home Baseball; 14 Wider Horizons Down Home; 15 Time Off to Play Ball; 16 Business Prefers Ball Players; 17 For Love and Money; 18 Tournaments, Trophies, and Cash; 19 The Armed Forces Enlist Baseball

20 Soldiers and Sailors Play Ball at Home and Abroad21 The Armed Forces Draft Baseball; 22 The Armed Forces After World War I; 23 Baseball's Progeny; 24 From Traditional Paths to Base Paths; 25 Baseball Breaks into Prison; 26 Mostly Home Games; 27 Other Breeds Without the Law; 28 Who Ever Heard of a Girls' Baseball Club?; 29 More Diamonds for College Women; 30 Women Touch All the Bases; 31 Goldilocks Is Benched; 32 Intramural versus Intercollegiate Ball for Women; 33 The Beginnings of Black Baseball; 34 If He Had a White Face; 35 Not from Dragon's Teeth; 36 A Long, Rough Road Still to



Travel

37 Two Strikes Called Before You BatBibliographical Note; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Hailed by Sports Illustrated as the ""Edward Gibbon of baseball history,"" Harold Seymour is the first professional historian to produce an authoritative, multivolume chronicle of America's national pastime.  The first two volumes of this study--The Early Years and The Golden Age--won universalacclaim.  The New York Times wrote that they ""will grip every American who has invested part of his youth and dreams in the sport,"" while The Boston Globe called them ""irresistible."" Now, in The People's Game, Seymour offers the first book devoted entirely to the history of the game outside of the pr

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910716456703321

Titolo

Upholding the President's policy in our relations with Mexico and Nicaragua. March 2, 1927. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : [U.S. Government Printing Office], , 1927

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (10 pages)

Collana

House report / 69th Congress, 2nd session. House ; ; no. 2298

[United States congressional serial set] ; ; [serial no. 8690]

Altri autori (Persone)

FairchildBenjamin Lewis <1863-> (Republican (NY))

Soggetti

Arms transfers

Defense industries

Canals

Disarmament

Investments, Foreign

International relations

Insurgency

Canals, Interoceanic

Intervention (International law)

Revolutions

Treaties

Americans - Foreign countries

Construction

Legislative materials.



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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FDLP item number not assigned.