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National Pastime
Language: en
Pages: 293
Authors: Martin C. Babicz
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-13 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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From its modest beginnings in rural America to its current status as an entertainment industry in postindustrial America enjoyed worldwide by millions each seas
National Pastime
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Stefan Szymanski
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

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Szymanski and Zimbalist pay special attention to the rich and complex evolution of baseball from its beginnings in America, and they trace modern soccer from it
Creating the National Pastime
Language: en
Pages: 385
Authors: G. Edward White
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-10 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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At a time when many baseball fans wish for the game to return to a purer past, G. Edward White shows how seemingly irrational business decisions, inspired in pa
Baseball in Blue and Gray
Language: en
Pages: 167
Authors: George B. Kirsch
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-24 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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During the Civil War, Americans from homefront to battlefront played baseball as never before. While soldiers slaughtered each other over the country's fate, pl
Eddie Mathews and the National Pastime
Language: en
Pages: 347
Authors: Eddie Mathews
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Douglas Amer Sports Publications

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Hall of Famer Mathews chronicles his life & baseball career, including anecdotes about Hank Aaron & Bob Uecker.