Creating the national pastime : baseball transforms itself, 1903-1953 /
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| Author / Creator: | White, G. Edward. |
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| Imprint: | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1996. |
| Description: | xiii, 368 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2442932 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Ch. 1. The Ballparks
- Ch. 2. The Enterprise, 1903-1923
- Ch. 3. The Rise of the Commissioner: Gambling, the Black Sox, and the Creation of Baseball Heroes
- Ch. 4. The Negro Leagues
- Ch. 5. The Coming of Night Baseball
- Ch. 6. Baseball Journalists
- Ch. 7. Baseball on the Radio
- Ch. 8. Ethnicity and Baseball: Hank Greenberg and Joe DiMaggio
- Ch. 9. The Enterprise, 1923-1953
- Ch. 10. The Decline of the National Pastime
- Notes
- Index