Baseball History from Outside the Lines

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Description

Baseball History from Outside the Lines gathers the best recent historical literature about the game. These well-written essays describe developments in the game''s past, assess their impact, and explain how they reflect the period in which they occurred. The essays also explore baseball''s influences outside the field of play as well as the effect of external factors on the game. The contributors discuss such key issues as demographics, communities, social mobility, race and ethnicity, baseball as a business, player-management relations, amateurs, women, and international play.

Sujets

• Baseball
• États-Unis
• USA
• Béisbol

Informations

• Publié par: Nebraska Paperback
• Date de parution: 01 avril 2001
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780803266650
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 14 Mo

Extrait

“Home Run,” reprinted fromOur National Game (Liebenroth Von Auw & Co.,1887). Private collection.

Baseball History from Outside the Lines a reader

edited by john e. dreifort

university of nebraska press lincoln and london

Acknowledgments for the use of previously published material appear on pages347–48, which constitute an extension of the copyright page. ©2001by the University of Nebraska Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Baseball history from outside the lines: a reader / edited by John E. Dreifort. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-8032-6587-5(pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Baseball—History. I. Dreifort, John E. gv862.5.b39 2001 796.357'0973—dc2 1 0-061540

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To my parents To my father, who taught me how to play catch To my mother, who indulged my fantasies

Contents

List of Illustrations, ix Editor’s Introduction, xi

Part1: The NationalPastime 1. The Base Ball Fraternity,3 warren goldstein 2. The Country of the Young: The Meaning of Baseball in Early American Culture,19 ronald story 3. ProfessionalBasebaloSdnlaica,Mobility34 steven a. riess 4. Baseball and the Reconstitution of American Masculinity,1880–1920,47 michael s. kimmel 5. Sol White and the Origin of African American Baseball,62 jerry malloy

Part2: The Golden Era 6. The Chicago Black Sox and the Myth of Baseball’s Single Sin,95 david q. voigt 7. Here Comes the Judge! The Origins of Baseball’s CommissionerSystemandAmericanLegalCulture,105 norman l. rosenberg 8. The Changing Style of Play: Cobb vs. Ruth,123 leverett t. smith jr. 9. Jim Crow Strikes Out: InterracialBasebal in Wichita, Kansas,1920–1935,142 jason pendleton

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10. The Athlete as Jewish Standard Bearer: Media Images of Hank Greenberg,160 william m. simons

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Part3: The NationalGame 11. A Spectacular Season: Jackie Robinson Breaks Through,183 jules tygiel 12. Playing a Man’s Game: Women and Baseball in the United States,1866–1954,195 debra shattuck 13. The Demise of the Philadelphia Athletics,216 bruce kuklick 14. More Legacy of Conquest: Long-Term Ramifications of the Major League Baseball Shift to the West,231 ron briley 15. Whatever Happened to the “Good Ol’ Days”? The Evolution of Baseball’s Labor-Management Relations,246 daniel r. marburger

Part4: The InternationalGame 16. Basebaland the Quest for NationalDignity in Meiji Japan,281 donald roden 17. Canada in the Country of Baseball,304 william humber 18. Viva Baseball! The Beginnings of Latin American Baseball,321 samuel o. regalado

Bibliographical Essay,337 Source Acknowledgments,347 Index,349

Illustrations

“Home Run,” frontispiece “Our NationalGame,”18 Fairmount College team1904,48 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis,104 Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb,1920,122 Jackie Robinson,1947,182 Dodger Stadium,232 American and Japanese all-star teams,1934,280