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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jules Tygiel |
| ISBN: | 0195146042 9780195146042 |
| OCLC Number: | 47648911 |
| Description: | xiii, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Jules Tygiel. |
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