A history of baseball in 100 objects
Subtitle: a tour through the bats, balls, uniforms, awards, documents, and other artifacts that tell the story of the national pastime
By: Josh Leventhal
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9781579129910
Subjects: Baseball; History
Other titles: History of baseball in one hundred objects
Description: A visual and historical record of the game as told through essential documents, letters, photographs, equipment, memorabilia, food and drink, merchandise and media items, and relics of popular culture, each of which represents the history and evolution of the game.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references (pages 480-481) and index.
Table of contents: title: The origins of baseball; title: Baseball goes pro; title: The dead-ball era; title: Babe Ruth and the birth of the lively ball era; title: War and integration; title: Expansion; title: The free-agent era; title: Strikes and steroids.