Baseball in Blue and Gray : : The National Pastime during the Civil War /

Baseball in Blue and Gray : : The National Pastime during the Civil War / / George B. Kirsch.

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During the Civil War, Americans from homefront to battlefront played baseball as never before. While soldiers slaughtered each other over the country's fate, players and fans struggled over the form of the national pastime. George Kirsch gives us a color commentary of the growth and transformat...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Kirsch, George B.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©2003
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (168 p.) :; 15 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. The Rise of Baseball
  • 2. Battlefront
  • 3. Home Front
  • 4. Players and Clubs
  • 5. Championship Competition and Commercialization
  • 6. The War's Legacy
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliographical Essay
  • Index

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