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Inventing baseball heroes : Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, and the sporting press in America / Amber Roessner.
Van Pelt Library GV867.64 .R64 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roessner, Amber, 1980-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball--Social aspects--United States.
- Baseball.
- Baseball--Social aspects.
- Sports journalism.
- Mass media and sports.
- United States.
- Baseball--United States--History.
- History.
- Mass media and sports--United States.
- Sports journalism--United States.
- Athletes in mass media.
- Cobb, Ty, 1886-1961.
- Cobb, Ty.
- Mathewson, Christy, 1880-1925.
- Mathewson, Christy.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 227 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- 1 Constructing Heroes 6
- 2 The Sporting Press; Baseball's Biggest Backscratcher 14
- 3 Enter Christy Mathewson and Tyrus Cobb 26
- 4 The Making of a Gentleman, a Peach, and a Sportswriter 42
- 5 Gathering the "Inside Dope" 59
- 6 Crafting Kings of the Diamond 78
- 7 Ghosts and Ghouls 97
- 8 The Quintessential Saint and the Preeminent Sinner 109
- 9 Baseball's Greatest Battle 133
- 10 A Triumphant Return 147
- 11 The End of the "Gee Whiz" Era 164.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807156117
- 0807156116
- 9780807156124
- 0807156124
- 9780807156148
- 0807156140
- OCLC:
- 861678110
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