The national game
Subtitle: baseball and American culture
By: John P. Rossi
Publisher: I.R. Dee
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Baseball -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
Description: "The National Game chronicles baseball's popular successes and financial failures; its interleague wars and continuing struggles between owners and players; and its accommodations, to radio and television. Mr. Rossi shows how the game has been able to survive a number of crises throughout its history without altering its fundamental nature, and how it has sought to adjust to changing audiences.

Yet he tells the story without neglecting the colorful players and managers, and the great teams, that have won the hearts of fans."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-235) and index
Table of contents: title: Origins of the game; title: Baseball as big business, 1876-1891; title: Coming of age, 1891-1908; title: The wars of baseball, 1909-1918; title: Golden age, 1919-1946-1960; title: Baseball in Depression and war, 1931-1945; title: No golden age: baseball, 1946-1960; title: Coming apart, 1961-1977; title: Best of times, worst of times, 1978-1994; title: The future of the national game