Creating the National Pastime : : Baseball Transforms Itself, 1903-1953 / / G. Edward White.
At a time when many baseball fans wish for the game to return to a purer past, G. Edward White shows how seemingly irrational business decisions, inspired in part by the self-interest of the owners but also by their nostalgia for the game, transformed baseball into the national pastime. Not simply a...
Saved in:
| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
|---|---|
| VerfasserIn: | |
| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Online Access: | |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 25 halftones |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter One. The Ballparks
- Chapter Two. The Enterprise, 1903-1923
- Chapter Three. The Rise of the Commissioner: Gambling, the Black Sox, and the Creation of Baseball Heroes
- Chapter Four. The Negro Leagues
- Chapter Five. The Coming of Night Baseball
- Chapter Six. Baseball Journalists
- Chapter Seven. Baseball on the Radio
- Chapter Eight. Ethnicity and Baseball: Hank Greenberg and Joe DiMaggio
- Chapter Nine. The Enterprise, 1923-1953
- Chapter Ten. The Decline of the National Pastime
- Notes
- Index