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Autore: | Vaught David <1958-> |
Titolo: | The farmers' game [[electronic resource] ] : baseball in rural America / / David Vaught |
Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
Disciplina: | 796.357 |
Soggetto topico: | Baseball - United States - History |
Baseball - Social aspects - United States | |
Country life - United States - History | |
Farm life - United States - History | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Rural conditions |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""INTRODUCTION: Abner Doubleday and Baseball�s Idol of Origins""; ""CHAPTER 1 Playing Ball in Cooperstown in the Formative Years of the American Republic""; ""CHAPTER 2 Baseball and the Transformation of Rural California""; ""CHAPTER 3 Multicultural Ball in the Heyday of Texas Cotton Agriculture""; ""CHAPTER 4 The Making of Bob Feller and the Modern American Farmer""; ""CHAPTER 5 The Milroy Yankees and the Decline of Southwest Minnesota""; ""CHAPTER 6 Gaylord Perry, the Spitter, and Farm Life in Eastern North Carolina"" |
""EPILOGUE: Vintage Ball""""Notes""; ""Essay on Sources""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z"" | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Vaught's deeply researched exploration of baseball's rural roots helps explain its enduring popularity. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The farmers' game |
ISBN: | 1-4214-0833-3 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910788207603321 |
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