Baseball in America and America in baseball [electronic resource] / edited by Donald G. Kyle and Robert B. Fairbanks ; introd. by Richard Crepeau ; with contributions by Benjamin G. Rader ... [et al.].

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TextSeries: Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; 38.Publication details: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: ix, 222 p. : illSubject(s):

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Electronic books.

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796.3570973 22

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GV863.A1 B387 2008

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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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