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G. Edward White

Creating the National Pastime

Baseball Transforms Itself, 1903-1953

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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 part by the self-interest of the owners but also by their nostalgia for the game, transformed baseball into the national pastime. Not simply a professional sport, baseball has been treated as a focus of childhood rituals and an emblem of American individuality and fair play throughout much of the twentieth century. It started out, however, as a marginal urban sport associated with drinking and gambling. White describes its progression to an almost mythic status as an idyllic game, popula… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-691-05885-6
  • EAN: 9780691058856
  • Produktnummer: 9115434
  • Verlag: Princeton University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
  • Seitenangabe: 384 S.
  • Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.0 cm 539 g
  • Abbildungen: 25 halftones
  • Gewicht: 539
  • Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)

Über den Autor


G. Edward White is University Professor and John B. Minor Professor of Law and History at the University of Virginia. His books include The Marshall Court and Cultural Change, 1815-1835 and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self.

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