Golden Game [[electronic resource] ] : The Story of California Baseball

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910815501203321
• Autore: Nelson Kevin
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lincoln, : UNP - Bison Books, 2015
• ISBN: 0-8032-8423-3; 0-8032-8425-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (456 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): GreenwaldHank
• Disciplina: 796.357
• Soggetti: Baseball -- California -- History; Baseball - History - California; Social Sciences; Recreation & Sports
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Contents ""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""1. The Seed Is Planted""; ""2. Stagecoach Baseball""; ""3. Enter the Professionals""; ""4. How Casey Advanced to the Bat""; ""5. Train Ride South""; ""6. From Robinson to Lange to Chance""; ""7. A Brand-New Ballgame""; ""8. A Ballpark Blooms in San Francisco""; ""9. The Los Angeles Mix, Winter 1908""; ""10. Schoolboys""; ""11. Playgrounds""; ""12. A Left-Hander for the Oaks""; ""13. There Was a Crooked Man""; ""14. The Pride of Th eir Community""; ""15. Babe Ruth in California""""16. An Experiment in Sound and Light""; ""17. Barnstormers""; ""18. In the Shadows of War""; ""19. Joe, Ted, Jackie""; ""20. War Games""; ""21. Breakthrough""; ""22. Golden Boys""; ""23. In a Corner of the United States""; ""24. Casey, Billy, and the Yanks""; ""25. Brown Derby Baseball""; ""26. They Changed the Game""; ""27. Los Angeles Dodgers vs. San Francisco Giants, April 1958""; ""28. The Last Days of Ty Cobb""; ""29. The Cowboy Rides In""; ""30. The Next Generation""; ""31. 1969""; ""Epilogue""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Source Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""