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Creating the National Pastime : Baseball Transforms Itself, 1903-1953.
At a time when many baseball fans wish for the game to return to a purer past, G. Edward White shows how seemingly irrational business decisions, inspired in part by the self-interest of the owners but also by their nostalgia for the game, transformed baseball into the national pastime. Not simply a...
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Princeton University Press,
2014.
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| 520 | |a At a time when many baseball fans wish for the game to return to a purer past, G. Edward White shows how seemingly irrational business decisions, inspired in part by the self-interest of the owners but also by their nostalgia for the game, transformed baseball into the national pastime. Not simply a professional sport, baseball has been treated as a focus of childhood rituals and an emblem of American individuality and fair play throughout much of the twentieth century. It started out, however, as a marginal urban sport associated with drinking and gambling. White describes its progression to. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One: The Ballparks; Chapter Two: The Enterprise, 1903-1923; Chapter Three: The Rise of the Commissioner: Gambling, the Black Sox, and the Creation of Baseball Heroes; Chapter Four: The Negro Leagues; Chapter Five: The Coming of Night Baseball; Chapter Six: Baseball Journalists; Chapter Seven: Baseball on the Radio; Chapter Eight: Ethnicity and Baseball: Hank Greenberg and Joe DiMaggio; Chapter Nine: The Enterprise, 1923-1953; Chapter Ten: The Decline of the National Pastime; Notes; Index. | |
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