Baseball: The People's GameOxford University Press, 1991 M05 30 - 672 páginas In Baseball: The People's Game, Dorothy Seymour Mills and Harold Seymour produce an authoritative, multi-volume chronicle of America's national pastime. The first two volumes of this study -The Early Years and The Golden Age -won universal acclaim. The New York Times wrote that they "will grip every American who has invested part of his youth and dreams in the sport," while The Boston Globe called them "irresistible." Now, in The People's Game, the authors offer the first book devoted entirely to the history of the game outside of the professional leagues, revealing how, from its early beginnings up to World War II, baseball truly became the great American pastime. They explore the bond between baseball and boys through the decades, the game's place in institutions from colleges to prisons to the armed forces, the rise of women's baseball that coincided with nineteenth century feminism, and the struggles of black players and clubs from the later years of slavery up to the Second World War. Whether discussing the birth of softball or the origins of the seventh inning stretch, the Seymours enrich their extensive research with fascinating details and entertaining anecdotes as well as a wealth of baseball experience. The People's Game brings to life the central role of baseball for generations of Americans. Note: On August 2, 2010, Oxford University Press made public that it would credit Dorothy Seymour Mills as co-author of the three baseball histories previously "authored" solely by her late husband, Harold Seymour. The Seymours collaborated on Baseball: The Early Years (1960), Baseball: The Golden Age (1971) and Baseball: The People's Game (1991). |
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... majorleague clubs, has dominated the House of Baseball for the best part of a century. Purveyors of the best brand of play and organized down to the number of stitches on the baseballs they use, the professionals have received the major ...
... majorleague clubs, has dominated the House of Baseball for the best part of a century. Purveyors of the best brand of play and organized down to the number of stitches on the baseballs they use, the professionals have received the major ...
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... majorleague scout contains the classic thumbsdown verdict that has ended the baseball dreams of countless young men: “Butcher won't hit over .250 in [the] National League. He pulls his ass away on a curve ball. ...” (The report ...
... majorleague scout contains the classic thumbsdown verdict that has ended the baseball dreams of countless young men: “Butcher won't hit over .250 in [the] National League. He pulls his ass away on a curve ball. ...” (The report ...
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... majorleague park could grab one hit out of the park. One day outside Ebbets Field I was lucky enough to get two! The poet Carl Sandburg, a baseball enthusiast in his youth, recalled that on rare occasions when the boys he played with ...
... majorleague park could grab one hit out of the park. One day outside Ebbets Field I was lucky enough to get two! The poet Carl Sandburg, a baseball enthusiast in his youth, recalled that on rare occasions when the boys he played with ...
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... majorleague team to represent, and as the boys batted they acted out “their” team's batting order, pretending each time they came to bat to be the appropriate bigleague hitter, batting rightor lefthanded as the case required, and even ...
... majorleague team to represent, and as the boys batted they acted out “their” team's batting order, pretending each time they came to bat to be the appropriate bigleague hitter, batting rightor lefthanded as the case required, and even ...
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... major leaguers or highminor leaguers, youngsters outside large cities had little chance of seeing them except in spring exhibition games played in their own or a nearby town by teams barnstorming their way north from training camp, or ...
... major leaguers or highminor leaguers, youngsters outside large cities had little chance of seeing them except in spring exhibition games played in their own or a nearby town by teams barnstorming their way north from training camp, or ...
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Scrub Ball Is Not Enough | |
From Sandlot to Municipal Diamond | |
New Sponsors and | |
A Sure Way to a Boys Heart | |
Soldiers and Sailors Play Ball at Home and Abroad | |
The Armed Forces Draft Baseball | |
The Armed Forces After World War I | |
Baseballs Progeny | |
THE BASEMENT | |
From Traditional Paths to Base Paths | |
Baseball Breaks into Prison | |
Mostly Home Games | |
Boys Baseball in Midpassage | |
THE GROUND FLOOR | |
Baseball Goes to College | |
The Principal College Game | |
Husky Muckers Intrude | |
College or Kindergarten | |
DownHome Baseball | |
Wider Horizons Down Home | |
Time Off to Play Ball | |
Business Prefers Ball Players | |
For Love and Money | |
Tournaments Trophies and Cash | |
The Armed Forces Enlist Baseball | |
Other Breeds Without the | |
THE ANNEX | |
Who Ever Heard of a Girls Baseball Club? | |
More Diamonds for College Women | |
Women Touch All the Bases | |
Goldilocks Is Benched | |
THE OUTBUILDING | |
The Beginnings of Black Baseball | |
If He Had a White Face | |
Not from Dragons Teeth | |
A Long Rough Road Still to Travel | |
Two Strikes Called Before You | |
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