Inventing Baseball Heroes
Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, and the Sporting Press in America
In Inventing Baseball Heroes, Amber Roessner examines herocrafting in sports journalism through an incisive analysis of the work surrounding two of baseball's most enduring personalities -- Detroit Tigers outfielder Ty Cobb and New York Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson. While other scholars have demonstrated that the mythmakers of the Golden Age of Sports Writing (1920--1930) manufactured heroes out of baseball players for the mainstream media, Roessner probes further, with a penetrating look at how sportswriters compromised emerging professional standards of journalism as they crafted heroic tales that sought to teach American boys how to be…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8071-5613-1
- EAN: 9780807156131
- Produktnummer: 27860480
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 248 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'613 KB
- Abbildungen: 14 halftones
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