Baseball in America and America in baseball
By: edited by Donald G. Kyle and Robert B. Fairbanks ; introd. by Richard Crepeau ; with contributions by Benjamin G. Rader ... [et al.].
Contributors: Kyle, Donald G.; Fairbanks, Robert B. 1950-; Rader, Benjamin G.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures -- no 38
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781603440233
Subjects: Baseball -- United States -- History; Baseball -- United States -- Miscellanea
Genres: Miscellanea.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Richard Crepeau; title: "Our players are mostly farmers" : baseball in rural California, 1850 to 1890 / David Vaught; title: "Invisible baseball" : Japanese Americans and their game in the 1930s / Samuel O. Regalado; title: Chasing shadows : the Baltimore Black Sox and the perils of history / Daniel A. Nathan; title: The profits of Major League Baseball, 1900 to 1956 / Steven A. Riess; title: Mapping an empire of baseball : American visions of national pastimes and global influence, 1919 to 1941 / Mark Dyreson; title: "Matters involving honor" : region, race, and rank in the violent life of Tyrus Raymond Cobb / Benjamin G. Rader.