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Crack of the bat : a history of baseball on the radio /
"The crack of the bat on the radio is ingrained in the American mind as baseball takes center stage each summer. Radio has brought the sounds of baseball into homes for almost one hundred years, helping baseball emerge from the 1919 Black Sox scandal into the glorious World Series of the 1920s....
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2015]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A game in words and sound
- Part 1. The Formative Years, 1920-36. Early World Series coverage
- The local game begins
- Inventing a new craft
- The baseball-radio war
- The World Series triggers a national obsession
- Advertisers expand baseball coverage
- Part 2. The Age of Acceptance, 1937-60. Re-creating baseball
- Baseball reluctantly embraces radio
- An explosion in national coverage
- Part 3. The Television Years, 1961-present. Radio in the age of television
- The modern baseball announcer
- Baseball broadcasts in the digital era
- Epilogue.