Protecting Home
Subtitle: Class, Race, And Masculinity In Boys' Baseball
Contributors: Janet Goldwater (Photographer)
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: May 25, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780813535555
Subjects: Baseball; Gender Studies; Social & cultural anthropology; Social Science; Pennsylvania; Boys; Social conditions; Popular Culture - General; Sociology; USA; Philadelphia; Baseball for children; Social aspects; Sociology - General; 21st century; Case studies; Philadelphia (Pa.); Pop Arts / Pop Culture
First sentence: After watching my son strike out three times during a game early in his first baseball season, then come up to bat for the fourth time and get two strikes, I left the bleachers and walked quickly to the women's bathroom to calm the nausea that was overwhelming me as I sat in the stands.