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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818466803321

Titolo

Baseball in America and America in baseball [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Donald G. Kyle and Robert B. Fairbanks ; introd. by Richard Crepeau ; with contributions by Benjamin G. Rader ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-60344-435-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Collana

Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; ; no 38

Altri autori (Persone)

KyleDonald G

FairbanksRobert B <1950-> (Robert Bruce)

RaderBenjamin G

Disciplina

796.3570973

Soggetti

Baseball - United States - History

Baseball - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Richard Crepeau -- "Our players are mostly farmers" : baseball in rural California, 1850 to 1890 / David Vaught -- "Invisible baseball" : Japanese Americans and their game in the 1930s / Samuel O. Regalado -- Chasing shadows : the Baltimore Black Sox and the perils of history / Daniel A. Nathan -- The profits of Major League Baseball, 1900 to 1956 / Steven A. Riess -- Mapping an empire of baseball : American visions of national pastimes and global influence, 1919 to 1941 / Mark Dyreson -- "Matters involving honor" : region, race, and rank in the violent life of Tyrus Raymond Cobb / Benjamin G. Rader.