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Reading baseball : books, biographies, and the business of the game / by Braham Dabscheck.
Van Pelt Library GV867.3 .D334 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dabscheck, Braham.
- Series:
- Sport & global cultures series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball--United States--History.
- Baseball.
- United States.
- History.
- Baseball--Biography.
- Baseball--History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Morgantown, WV : Fitness Information Technology, [2011]
- Summary:
- In Reading Baseball: Books, Biographies, and the Business of the Game, author and scholar Braham Dabsheck muses upon some of baseball's silent yet magnificently important treasures. He examines several topics, including the business of the game (industrial and labor relations, Curt Flood, law, and organized baseball); social commentary biographies (such as the work of Ken Burns and Stephen Jay Gould); and culture of the game as it spreads across the globe to places like Australia, Japan, and Latin America.
- The insightful collection of essays in Reading Baseball conveys to the reader the glorious and the sinister, the Cogs and the chemistry, the sentimental memories and the bitter history. The contents are an important companion to any enthusiast of baseball or sport history and culture. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- A simple matter of control : industrial relations in American baseball
- Sport, law, America!
- An American hero : Curt Flood and his struggle against organized baseball
- The sporting cartel in history
- Stephen Jay Gould finds joy in Mudville
- Baseball and philosophy
- Baseball : a refuge from America
- Baseball biographies : the darling of whiteball and the epicenter of blackball
- Branch Rickey : baseball's master paternalist
- Shadows in the spotlight : two Jewish-American baseball players
- Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Barry Bonds : the rise and fall of American baseball players
- The commissioners
- The formation and early years of the Australian Baseball League
- Spalding's world tour and baseball in Asia
- Latinos and the national pastime.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-203) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1935412248
- 9781935412243
- OCLC:
- 733943549
- Publisher Number:
- 99970125613
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