Kansas Baseball, 1858 - 1941 /
The story of Kansas baseball includes the full range of topics that dominated the sport's early history--segregation, Sunday sports, night games, and more--from the ""Bloody Kansas"" era prior to the Civil War to the eve of World War II.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lawrence :
University Press of Kansas,
[2017]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Early history of baseball in Kansas
- Town teams and the early game
- Hometown women's teams and barnstorming Bloomer Girls
- African American baseball
- American Indian baseball
- Mexican and Mexican-American baseball and softball
- Minor leagues and the establishment of night baseball
- Major league exhibition games and tours
- Game goes on, Kansas town teams evolve
- Historical Baseball Parks in Kansas
- Joe Campbell Memorial Stadium, Rossville (1924)
- South Park Field, Kinsley (1934)
- Lawrence-Dumont Stadium, Wichita (1934)
- Clint Lightner Field, Garden City (1936)
- Katy Stadium, Chanute (1936)
- Moffet Field Stadium, Larned (1937)
- Rathert Stadium, Junction City (1937)
- McDonald Stadium, El Dorado (1940)
- Larks Park, Hays (1940).