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Our game: an American baseball history

By Alexander , Charles C

Book information

Publisher
Henry Holt and Co.;MJF Books
Year
1996
ISBN
156731130X, 9781466856226, 9781567311303
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
453 kB (464275 bytes)
Pages
x, 388 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illu
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Baseball--United States--History;Baseball;History;

Description

The New York game -- The professional game -- The national pastime and the serfs' revolt -- Baseball feudalism and the rise of the American League -- The dead-ball era -- War, scandal, and Babe Ruth -- The golden twenties -- The gray thirties -- War, plenty, and the end of Jim Crow -- Shrinking crowds and shifting franchises -- The expansion era -- The end of feudalism -- The embattled eighties -- Non-sesquicentennial reflections. The New York game -- The professional game -- The national pastime and the serfs' revolt -- Baseball feudalism and the rise of the American League -- The dead-ball era -- War, scandal, and Babe Ruth -- The golden twenties -- The gray thirties -- War, plenty, and the end of Jim Crow -- Shrinking crowds and shifting franchises -- The expansion era -- The end of feudalism -- The embattled eighties -- Non-sesquicentennial reflections.

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