Past time : baseball as history
Discusses baseball's history and the game's relationship to American society from the 1850s until the present day
Print Book, English, 2000
Oxford University Press, Oxford [England], 2000
History
xiii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780195089585, 9780195146042, 0195089588, 0195146042
42290019
The national game. Reflections on the rise of baseball in the 1850s and 1860s
The mortar of which baseball is held together. Henry Chadwick and the invention of baseball statistics
Incarnations of success. Charles Comiskey, Connie Mack, John McGraw, and Clark Griffith
New ways of knowing. Baseball in the 1920s
Adjusting to the new order. Branch Rickey, Larry MacPhail, and the Great Depression
Unreconciled strivings. Baseball in Jim Crow America
The shot heart 'round the world
The homes of the Braves. Baseball's shifting geography, 1953-1972
Populist baseball. Baseball fantasies in the 1980s