Baseball : a history of America's game /
In this fourth edition, Benjamin G. Rader updates the text with a portrait of baseball's new order. He charts an on-the-field game transformed by analytics, an influx of Latino and Asian players, and a generation of players groomed for brute power both on the mound and at the plate. He also ana...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
---|---|
Main Author: | |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
Published: |
Urbana :
The University of Illinois Press,
[2018]
|
Edition: | Fourth Edition. |
Series: | Sport and society.
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The fraternity and its game
- A commercial spectacle
- The first professional teams
- The first professional leagues
- The players' revolt
- The great baseball war
- Baseball's coming of age
- The big fix
- The age of Ruth
- An age of dynasties
- Baseball's great experiment
- The last days of the old game
- Baseball in trouble
- The empowerment of the players
- The demise of dynasties
- The steroid era
- Baseball's new order.