One Nation Under Baseball : How the 1960s Collided with the National Pastime /
"Engaging and lively history of baseball in the 1960s"--
Autores principales: | , |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2017]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "Engaging and lively history of baseball in the 1960s"-- "One Nation Under Baseball highlights the intersection between American society and America's pastime during the 1960s, when the hallmarks of the sport--fairness, competition, and mythology--came under scrutiny. John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro examine the events of the era that reshaped the game: the Koufax and Drysdale million-dollar holdout, the encroachment of television on newspaper coverage, the changing perception of ballplayers from mythic figures to overgrown boys, the arrival of the everyman Mets and their free-spirited fans, and the lawsuit brought against team owners by Curt Flood. One Nation Under Baseball brings to life the seminal figures of the era--including Bob Gibson, Marvin Miller, Tom Seaver, and Dick Young--richly portraying their roles during a decade of flux and uncertainty."-- |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (256 pages). |
ISBN: | 9781496200822 |