Presenting views from a variety of sport and history experts,
Baseball in America and America in Baseball captures the breadth
and unsuspected variety of our national fascination and identification
with America's Game.
Chapters cover such well-known figures as Ty Cobb and lesser-
known topics like the "invisible" baseball played by Japanese
Americans during the 1930s and 1940s. A study of baseball in rural
California from the Gold Rush to the turn of the twentieth century
provides an interesting glimpse at how the game evolved from its
earliest beginnings to something most modern observers would find
familiar. Chapters on the Negro League's Baltimore Black Sox,
financial profits of major league teams from 1900 to 1956, and
American aspirations to a baseball-led cultural hegemony during the
first half of the twentieth century round out this superb collection of
sport history scholarship.
Baseball in America and America in Baseball belongs on the
bookshelf of any avid student of the game and its history. It also
provides interesting glimpses into the sociology of sport in America.
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DONALD G. KYLE is a professor of history at the University of
Texas at Arlington. His special research emphasis is sport history.
ROBERT B. FAIRBANKS is chair of the Department of History at
the University of Texas at Arlington and specializes in urban history
studies.
Number Thirty-eight: Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures
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