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The New York game : baseball and the rise of a new city / Kevin Baker.
Van Pelt - New Book Display GV875.N72 B35 2024
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baker, Kevin, 1958- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball--New York (State)--New York--History.
- Baseball.
- Baseball players--New York (State)--New York--History.
- Baseball players.
- New York (N.Y.)--History--20th century.
- New York (N.Y.).
- New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Manners and customs.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- ix, 511 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Baseball and the rise of a new city
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
- Summary:
- "A hugely entertaining history of baseball in New York City, bursting with bigger than life figures, and long-forgotten heroes, spanning the game's founding to the early 1940s"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part one: Origins. City game
- The whirlpool and the volcano
- "The snap, go, fling"
- "One or more colored persons"
- The professionals
- Making the Welkin Ring
- A league
- "Lies, damned les, and..."
- Drawing the color line
- "We are the people!"
- "Work of the sneaky order"
- Strike!
- Consolidation
- Part two: The inside game, 1901-1919. "Scholastic contests"
- "Truxton against the world"
- The Christian gentleman
- The bad guys come to town
- Subterraneans
- "The man with the corkscrew brain"
- Ballyhoo
- Bonehead
- The great brain
- Various catastrophes
- The flock takes flight
- The other game in town
- "Gossip is a dangerous thing"
- The big fix
- Part three: The Babe in Nighttown, 1920-1929. The city in the air
- The Babe
- The big money
- Death in the afternoon
- The franchise
- A giant mistake
- Welcome to Goatville
- Dazzy and Daffy
- "Anything can happen now"
- Out of the shadows
- The greatest team, part I
- The brass cuspidor and paradise in the Bronx
- The virtuous city: New York in the Great Depression, 1929-1939. "Sluttish to the last degree"
- The virtuous city is born
- "The attendance was robbed"
- Last call
- The quiet men
- "The 'coonsberry' rules"
- The powerhouse
- The greatest team. Again. Biscuit pants and the dage
- "And always play the game"
- Singing in the dark: the city in time of war, 1939-1945. The waiting game
- The world of tomorrow
- The redheaded league
- Brooklyn becomes the world
- The stolen season
- The streak
- Brooklyn's own DiMaggio
- The wait for next year begins
- Hail and farewell
- The cave of the winds
- Life during wartime
- The fire this time.
- Notes:
- "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Baker, Kevin. New York game
- ISBN:
- 9780375421839
- 0375421831
- OCLC:
- 1382525084
- Publisher Number:
- 99996055685
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