A people's history of baseball

A people's history of baseball / Mitchell Nathanson.

Probes the other side of baseball history--episodes not involving equality, patriotism, heroism, and virtuous capitalism, but power--how it is obtained, how it perpetuates itself, and how it affects the game.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nathanson, Mitchell, 1966-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Baseball > United States > History.
Baseball > Social aspects > United States > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Baseball > Essays & Writings.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Baseball > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Baseball > Statistics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Baseball
Baseball > Social aspects
United States
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 1.A Game of Their Own
  • 2. The Sovereign Nation of Baseball
  • 3. Rickey, Race, and "All Deliberate Speed"
  • 4. Tearing Down the Walls
  • 5."Wait 'Til Next Year" and the Denial of History
  • 6. The Storytellers.

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