Baseball in America and America in baseball / edited by Donald G. Kyle and Robert B. Fairbanks ; introd. by Richard Crepeau ; with contributions by Benjamin G. Rader ... [et al.].

Other author Kyle, Donald G.
Other author Fairbanks, Robert B. (Robert Bruce), 1950-
Other author Rader, Benjamin G.
Format Electronic
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoCollege Station : Texas A&M University Press,
Descriptionix, 222 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Baseball--United States. --History.
Baseball--United States. --Miscellanea.

SeriesThe Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; no 38
Contents Introduction / Richard Crepeau -- "Our players are mostly farmers" : baseball in rural California, 1850 to 1890 / David Vaught -- "Invisible baseball" : Japanese Americans and their game in the 1930s / Samuel O. Regalado -- Chasing shadows : the Baltimore Black Sox and the perils of history / Daniel A. Nathan -- The profits of Major League Baseball, 1900 to 1956 / Steven A. Riess -- Mapping an empire of baseball : American visions of national pastimes and global influence, 1919 to 1941 / Mark Dyreson -- "Matters involving honor" : region, race, and rank in the violent life of Tyrus Raymond Cobb / Benjamin G. Rader.
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LCCN 2007037685
ISBN9781603440233 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1603440232 (cloth : alk. paper)