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UNINA9910813227503321 |
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Autore |
Fountain Charles |
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Titolo |
Under the March sun : the story of spring training / / Charles Fountain |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-974370-3 |
1-281-98713-1 |
9786611987138 |
0-19-970731-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (333 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Spring training (Baseball) |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-281) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Prologue: Under the March Sun; 1. Myths, Madcaps, and Misbehavior: Spring Training in the Nineteenth Century; 2. St. Petersburg's Mr. Baseball; 3. Spring Training Takes Root; 4. A Sportswriter Helps to End Separate but Hardly Equal; 5. Mr. O'Malley's Dodgertown; 6. The Bottom Line Crowds Out the Box Score; 7. Red Sox Nation Flies South; 8. "Let the Tourists Put in Their Two Cents"; 9. Changing the Dynamic: Lee County and the Twins; 10. Fields of Broken Dreams; 11. Breathing Braves Air; 12. The Chief Big Ho and Car Rentals: The Cactus League Comes of Age |
13. How the Dodgers Almost Left Vero Beach the First Time14. The Oasis League: Las Vegas Ups the Ante; 15. A Tale of Three Cities; 16. St. Pete Bids Spring Training Adieu; 17. Camelback Ranch; 18. Bottom of the Ninth in Vero Beach; Epilogue: "Go Team, Go!"; Appendix: Major League Baseball Spring Training Sites, 1901-Present; Acknowledgments; Selected Bibliography; Source Notes; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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There is nothing in all of American sport quite like baseball's spring training. This annual six-week ritual, whose origins date back nearly a century and a half, fires the hearts and imaginations of fans who flock by the hundreds of thousands to places like Dodgertown to glimpse superstars and living legends in a relaxed moment and watch the drama of journeyman veterans and starry-eyed kids in search of that |
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