The golden game
Subtitle: the story of California baseball
By: Kevin Nelson ; foreword by Hank Greenwald.
Publisher: California Historical Society Press; Heyday Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: San Francisco, Calif; Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
Subjects: Baseball -- California -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The seed is planted; title: Stagecoach baseball; title: Enter the professionals; title: How Casey advanced to the bat; title: Train ride south; title: From Robinson to Lange to Chance; title: A brand new ballgame; title: A ballpark blooms in San Francisco; title: The Los Angeles mix, winter 1908; title: Schoolboys; title: Playgrounds; title: A lefthander for the Oaks; title: There was a crooked man; title: Pride of their community; title: Babe Ruth in California; title: An experiment in sound and light; title: Barnstormers; title: In the shadows of war; title: Joe, Ted, Jackie; title: War games; title: Breakthrough; title: Golden boys; title: In a corner of the United States; title: Casey, Billy, and the Yanks; title: Brown Derby baseball; title: They changed the game; title: Los Angeles Dodgers vs. San Francisco Giants, April 1958; title: The last days of Ty Cobb; title: The cowboy rides in; title: The next generation; title: 1969.