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Under the March sun : the story of spring training /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.