Touching base
Subtitle: professional baseball and American culture in the Progressive Era
By: Steven A. Riess.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Series: Sport and society
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Baseball -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Baseball -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-295) and index.
Table of contents: title: Take me out to the ball game : the crowd and the ideology of baseball; title: Professional baseball and urban politics; title: Politics, ballparks, and the neighborhoods; title: Professional Sunday baseball and social reform; title: Professional baseball as a source of social mobility.