Baseball history from outside the lines : a reader / edited by John E. Dreifort.

Other author Dreifort, John E.
Format Book
Publication InfoLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2001.
Descriptionxvii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Baseball--History.

Contents The base ball fraternity / Warren Goldstein -- The country of the young : the meaning of baseball in early American culture / Ronald Story -- Professional baseball and social mobility / Steven A. Riess -- Baseball and the reconstitution of American masculinity, 1880-1920 / Michael S. Kimmel -- Sol White and the origin of African American baseball / Jerry Malloy -- The Chicago Black Sox and the myth of baseball's single sin / David Q. Voigt -- Here comes the judge! The origins of baseball's commissioner system and American legal culture / Norman L. Rosenberg -- The changing style of play : Cobb vs. Ruth / Leverett T. Smith Jr. -- Jim Crow strikes out : interracial baseball in Wichita, Kansas, 1920-1935 / Jason Pendleton -- The athlete as Jewish standard bearer : media images of Hank Greenberg / William M. Simons -- A spectacular season : Jackie Robinson breaks through / Jules Tygiel -- Playing a man's game : women and baseball in the United States, 1866-1954 / Debra Shattuck -- The demise of the Philadelphia Athletics / Bruce Kuklick -- More legacy of conquest : long-term ramifications of the major league baseball shift to the West / Ron Briley -- Whatever happened to the "good ol' days"? The evolution of baseball's labor-management relations / Daniel R. Marburger -- Baseball and the quest for national dignity in Meiji Japan / Donald Roden -- Canada in the country of baseball / William Humber -- Viva baseball! The beginnings of Latin American baseball / Samuel O. Regalado.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [337]-348) and index.
LCCN 00061540
ISBN0803265875 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks GV862.5 .B39 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold