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Title:

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.].

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Texas A&M University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

ix, 222 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Baseball--United States--History.
Baseball--United States--Miscellanea.

Other Authors:

Kyle, Donald G.
Fairbanks, Robert B. (Robert Bruce), 1950-
Rader, Benjamin G.

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.

Series:

Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; no 38

ISBN:

1603440232 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781603440233 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007037685

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)