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Baseball. Vol. III, The people's game /

Hailed by Sports Illustrated as the "Edward Gibbon of baseball history," Harold Seymour is the first professional historian to produce an authoritative, multivolume chronicle of America's national pastime. The first two volumes of this study--The Early Years and The Golden Age--won un...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Seymour, Harold, 1910-1992
Otros Autores: Mills, Dorothy Seymour
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1990
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Sandlot and cow pasture
  • Double curves and magic bats
  • Every mother ought to rejoice
  • Scrub ball is not enough
  • From sandlot to municipal diamond
  • New sponsors and old
  • A sure way to a boy's heart
  • Boys' baseball in midpassage
  • Baseball goes to college
  • The principal college game
  • Husky muckers intrude
  • College or kindergarten
  • Down-home baseball
  • Wider horizons down home
  • Time off to play ball
  • Business prefers ball players
  • For love and money
  • Tournaments, trophies, and cash
  • The armed forces enlist baseball
  • Soldiers and sailors play ball at home and abroad
  • The armed forces draft baseball
  • The armed forces after World War I
  • Baseball's progeny
  • From traditional paths to base paths
  • Baseball breaks into prison
  • Mostly home games
  • Other breeds without the law
  • Who ever heard of a girls' baseball club?
  • More diamonds for college women
  • Women touch all the bases
  • Goldilocks is benched
  • Intramural versus intercollegiate ball for women
  • The beginnings of black baseball
  • If he had a white face
  • Not from dragon's teeth
  • A long, rough road still to travel
  • Two strikes called before you bat.