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Our game : an American baseball history
- Title
- Our game : an American baseball history / Charles C. Alexander.
- Author
- Alexander, Charles C.
- Publication
- New York : Henry Holt, ©1991.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | GV863.A1 A4 1991 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 388 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Traces baseball from the development of the "New York Game" one hundred and fifty years ago, and charts the rise of the pastime that quickly eclipsed other sporting activities.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-368) and index.
- Contents
- The New York game -- The professional game -- The national pastime and the serfs' revolt -- Baseball feudalism and the rise of the American League -- The dead-ball era -- War, scandal, and Babe Ruth -- The golden twenties -- The gray thirties -- War, plenty, and the end of Jim Crow -- Shrinking crowds and shifting franchises -- The expansion era -- The end of feudalism -- The embattles eighties -- Non-sesquicentennial reflections.
- ISBN
- 0805015949
- 9780805015942
- LCCN
- 90020585
- OCLC
- ocm22593019
- 22593019
- SCSB-1926055
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library