Beyond DiMaggio
Subtitle: Italian Americans in baseball
By: Lawrence Baldassaro ; foreword by Dom DiMaggio
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780803217058
Subjects: Italian American baseball players; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : At home in America; title: Ed Abbaticchio : forgotten pioneer; title: The boys from San Francisco; title: Where are the Italians?; title: The Tony Lazzeri era; title: The turning point : 1930-1935; title: Viva Italia! 1936-1939; title: The first MVPs : Lombardi, Camilli, and Cavarretta; title: To war and back; title: Postwar New York : the golden age; title: The DiMaggio brothers : realizing the American dream; title: Italian Yankees : Paesans in pinstripes; title: Interborough warfare : Dodgers versus Giants; title: The last "Italians"; title: The 1970s and beyond; title: From labor to management; title: Executive suite.