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New Mexico baseball : miners, outlaws, Indians, and isotopes, 1880 to the present / L. M. Sutter.
LIBRA GV863.N6 S88 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sutter, L. M, 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball--New Mexico--History.
- Baseball.
- History.
- New Mexico--Social life and customs.
- New Mexico.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 243 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2010]
- Summary:
- "This work traces the history of New Mexican baseball to the days of Billy the Kid and Geronimo. The author describes a kind of feudal society in those early years of the Wild West, where soldiers, miners, criminals, homesteaders, farmers, and the still unsubdued Apaches populated the land, but where baseball existed and was played"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The land of enchantment
- Base ballists in the territory of New Mexico
- Picks, shovels, and bats
- Doing time : the penitentiary players
- A league, a town, a legend
- The flying Kellys
- Soldiers, cowboys, and baseball players : African Americans in New Mexico
- The king (no asterisk)
- The Connie Mack world series
- The Rio Abajo
- Making the ball sing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780786441228
- 0786441224
- OCLC:
- 492091353
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