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Chasing dreams : baseball and becoming American / edited by Josh Perelman.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection GV867.64 .C43 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball--Social aspects--United States--Exhibitions.
- Baseball.
- Baseball--United States--History--Exhibitions.
- Jewish baseball players--United States--Exhibitions.
- Jewish baseball players.
- Jews--Cultural assimilation--United States--Exhibitions.
- Jews.
- Baseball--Religious aspects--Judaism--Exhibitions.
- African American baseball players--Exhibitions.
- African American baseball players.
- African Americans--Relations with Jews--History--20th century--Exhibitions.
- African Americans.
- Minorities in baseball--United States--History--Exhibitions.
- Minorities in baseball.
- Racism in sports--United States--History--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Racism in sports.
- Ethnic relations.
- History.
- African Americans--Relations with Jews.
- Baseball--Religious aspects--Judaism.
- Jews--Cultural assimilation.
- Baseball--Social aspects.
- United States--Ethnic relations--Exhibitions.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Penn Provenance:
- National Museum of American Jewish History (Philadelphia, Pa.) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages : illustrations, some of which are in color, facsimiles ; 29 cm
- Other Title:
- Baseball and becoming American
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, PA : National Museum of American Jewish History, [2014]
- Contents:
- My baseball years / Philip Roth
- Why baseball begins in the spring
- Shaping identity: what would Koufax have said?
- Overcoming adversity: fight or flight
- Family and continuity: Jackie's family circle.
- Notes:
- Catalog published in conjunction with the special exhibition Chasing dreams, baseball and becoming American, at the National Museum of American Jewish History, March 13-October 26, 2014.
- Has excerpt from The Chosen / Chaim Potok.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781891507052
- 1891507052
- OCLC:
- 878707071
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