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Baseball over the air : the national pastime on the radio and in the imagination / Tony Silvia ; foreword by Dewayne Staats.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Silvia, Tony.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Radio and baseball--History.
- Radio and baseball.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2007]
- Summary:
- "This narrative contains the documentation and interpretation of two imaginative pastimes (radio and baseball) and illuminates each in a unique manner. It integrates radio and baseball historically, sociologically, and culturally using the common themes of imaginative expression. This book is a unique approach into the magic of radio's imaginative power"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Long distance dreams : baseball and early radio
- Tall tales and recreations : radio, baseball, and manufactured reality
- A dark room deep in the woods : radio and baseball in fiction and nonfiction
- Radio's pioneer of poetic license : Gordon McLendon
- Spellbinding storyteller : radio's "other" Stern
- Casting a magic spell : Graham McNamee, Red Barber, and Mel Allen
- The listener's club : radio, baseball, and a sense of community
- A new community : radio, baseball, and bloggers
- A new field of play : radio, baseball, and the future.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-219) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780786430666
- 0786430664
- OCLC:
- 124031801
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