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Past time : baseball as history
- Title
- Past time : baseball as history / Jules Tygiel.
- Author
- Tygiel, Jules.
- Publication
- Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- xiii, 258 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- Discusses baseball's history and the game's relationship to American society from the 1850s until the present day.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-245) and index.
- Contents
- The national game. Reflections on the rise of baseball in the 1850s and 1860s -- The mortar of which baseball is held together. Henry Chadwick and the invention of baseball statistics -- Incarnations of success. Charles Comiskey, Connie Mack, John McGraw, and Clark Griffith -- New ways of knowing. Baseball in the 1920s -- Adjusting to the new order. Branch Rickey, Larry MacPhail, and the Great Depression -- Unreconciled strivings. Baseball in Jim Crow America -- The shot heart 'round the world -- The homes of the Braves. Baseball's shifting geography, 1953-1972 -- Populist baseball. Baseball fantasies in the 1980s.
- Call Number
- JFE 00-10695
- ISBN
- 0195089588
- 9780195089585
- 0195146042
- 9780195146042
- LCCN
- 99040106
- OCLC
- 42290019
- Author
- Tygiel, Jules.
- Title
- Past time : baseball as history / Jules Tygiel.
- Imprint
- Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-245) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFE 00-10695