National pastime : U.S. history through baseball / Martin C. Babicz and Thomas W. Zeiler.
Babicz, Martin C.; Zeiler, Thomas W., author.
2017
GV863.A1 B24 2017eb
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Title
National pastime : U.S. history through baseball / Martin C. Babicz and Thomas W. Zeiler.
Author
Babicz, Martin C.
ISBN
9781442235854 (electronic book)
1442235853 (electronic book)
Publication Details
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 277 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
GV863.A1 B24 2017eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
796.3570973
Summary
Through war, depression, times of tumultuous upheaval and of great prosperity - baseball has reflected America's history and ideals. In this book, historians Martin Babicz and Thomas Zeiler find in baseball a window into America's past and into the values that allow both the sport and nation to endure: hope, tradition, escape, and revolution.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Zeiler, Thomas W., author.
Series
American ways series.
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National pastime.
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Baseball in Tocqueville's America (to 1870)
The industrialization of leisure (1871 to 1883)
Color and global barriers (1865 to 1918)
The American labor movement and the players' league (1884 to 1891)
Progressivism and the American League (1892 to 1903)
Normalcy and the Black Sox scandal (1904 to 1922)
Babe Ruth and the roaring twenties (1920 to 1929)
Segregation and the Negro leagues (1896 to 1949)
Baseball and the Great Depression (1929 to 1940)
Baseball goes to war (1941 to 1945)
Jackie Robinson and civil rights (1946 to 1989)
The postwar American century (1945 to 1964)
Change and revolution (1960 to 1975)
Baseball in postindustrial America (since 1975)
A global game (since 1865)
Epilogue: traditions.

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