Inventing Baseball Heroes : Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, and the Sporting Press in America /

"In Inventing Baseball Heroes, Amber Roessner examines "hero-crafting" in sports journalism through an incisive analysis of the work surrounding two of baseball's most enduring personalities: Detroit Tigers outfielder Ty Cobb and New York Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson"--J...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roessner, Amber, 1980-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Mathewson, Christy, > 1880-1925.
Cobb, Ty, > 1886-1961.
Sports journalism.
Mass media and sports.
Baseball > Social aspects.
Baseball.
Athletes in mass media.
Sports journalism > United States.
Mass media and sports > United States.
Baseball > United States > History.
Baseball > Social aspects > United States.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Baseball beckons
  • Constructing heroes
  • The sporting press: baseball's biggest backscratcher
  • Enter Christy Mathewson and Tyrus Cobb
  • The making of a gentleman, a peach, and a sportswriter
  • Gathering the "inside dope"
  • Crafting kings of the diamond
  • Ghosts and ghouls
  • The quintessential saint and the preeminent sinner
  • Baseball's greatest battle
  • A triumphant return
  • The end of the "gee whiz" era
  • Nostalgia for a bygone era.

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