Creating the National Pastime : Baseball Transforms Itself, 1903-1953 /

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"At a time when many baseball fans wish for the game to return to a purer past, G. Edward White shows how seemingly irrational business decisions, inspired in part by the self-interest of the owners but also by their nostalgia for the game, transformed baseball into the national pastime. Not si...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: White, G. Edward
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1996]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Nationale identiteit.
Honkbal.
Soziologie
Geschichte
Baseball
Baseball > Social aspects.
Baseball.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Baseball > History.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Reference.
SPORTS & RECREATION > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Business Aspects.
GAMES > Gambling > Sports.
Base-ball > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Baseball > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Baseball > United States > History > 20th century.
USA.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The ballparks
  • The enterprise, 1903-1923
  • The rise of the commissioner: gambling, the Black Sox, and the creation of baseball heroes
  • The Negro leagues
  • The coming of night baseball
  • Baseball journalists
  • Baseball on the radio
  • Ethnicity and baseball: Hank Greenberg and Joe DiMaggio
  • The enterprise, 1923-1953
  • The decline of the national pastime.

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