Baseball Transforms Itself, 1903-1953
E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5136-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction 3
Ch. 1 The Ballparks 10
Ch. 2 The Enterprise, 1903-1923 47
Ch. 3 The Rise of the Commissioner: Gambling, the Black Sox, and the Creation of Baseball Heroes 84
Ch. 4 The Negro Leagues 127
Ch. 5 The Coming of Night Baseball 160
Ch. 6 Baseball Journalists 190
Ch. 7 Baseball on the Radio 206
Ch. 8 Ethnicity and Baseball: Hank Greenberg and Joe DiMaggio 245
Ch. 9 The Enterprise, 1923-1953 275
Ch. 10 The Decline of the National Pastime 316
Notes 331
Index 355