Baseball. Vol. III, The people's game
Hailed by Sports Illustrated as the "Edward Gibbon of baseball history," Harold Seymour is the first professional historian to produce an authoritative, multivolume chronicle of America's national pastime. The first two volumes of this study--The Early Years and The Golden Age--won universalacclaim. 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, Seymour offers the first book devoted entirely to the history of the game outside of the professi
History
1 online resource (xi, 639 pages) : illustrations
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Sandlot and cow pasture
Double curves and magic bats
Every mother ought to rejoice
Scrub ball is not enough
From sandlot to municipal diamond
New sponsors and old
A sure way to a boy's heart
Boys' baseball in midpassage
Baseball goes to college
The principal college game
Husky muckers intrude
College or kindergarten
Down-home 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
Soldiers and sailors play ball at home and abroad
The armed forces draft baseball
The armed forces after World War I
Baseball's progeny
From traditional paths to base paths
Baseball breaks into prison
Mostly home games
Other breeds without the law
Who ever heard of a girls' baseball club?
More diamonds for college women
Women touch all the bases
Goldilocks is benched
Intramural versus intercollegiate ball for women
The beginnings of black baseball
If he had a white face
Not from dragon's teeth
A long, rough road still to travel
Two strikes called before you bat
Co-authored by Dorothy Seymour Mills
"Dorothy Seymour Mills has been added by Oxford University Press as co-author of an acclaimed three-volume history of baseball originally attributed solely to her husband."--Sioux City Journal, July 25, 2010