With the boys
Subtitle: Little League baseball and preadolescent culture
By: Gary Alan Fine.
Series: A Chicago original paperback
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Little league baseball.; Baseball for children  -- Social aspects  -- United States.
Description: "What are boys like? Who is the creature inhabiting the twilight zone between the perils of the Oedipus complex and the Strum und Drang of puberty? In With the Boys, Gary Alan Fine examines the American male preadolescent by studying the world of Little League baseball. Drawings on three years of firsthand observation of five Little Leagues, Fine describes how, through organized sport and its accompanying activities, boys learn to play, work, and generally be "men.""--Back cover.
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 271-286.