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Bat, ball & Bible : baseball and Sunday observance in New York / Charles DeMotte.
Van Pelt Library GV863.N72 D46 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeMotte, Charles, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball--New York (State)--History.
- Baseball.
- Baseball--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Sunday legislation--New Yorki (State)--History.
- Sunday legislation.
- History.
- New York (State)--Politics and government.
- New York (State).
- Politics and government.
- New York (State)--Religious life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 205 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Bat, ball and Bible
- Place of Publication:
- Dulles, Va. : Potomac Books, [2013]
- Contents:
- 1 The Battle Lines: Blue Laws, Religion, and the Evolution of Baseball 1
- 2 The Emergence of the Sunday Baseball Issue in the Nineteenth Century 29
- 3 The Sunday Question: Commercialized Baseball, Evasions, and the Courts, 1900-1909 63
- 4 Local Opposition to Sunday Baseball and the Legislative Initiative, 1910-1916 93
- 5 Local Option, the War, and the Modification of the Sunday Baseball Law, 1917-1919 123
- 6 The Aftermath, 1920-1924 157.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781597979474
- 1597979473
- 9781597979481
- 1597979481
- OCLC:
- 795759569
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