Our game: an American baseball history 156731130X, 9781466856226, 9781567311303

The New York game -- The professional game -- The national pastime and the serfs' revolt -- Baseball feudalism and

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English Pages x, 388 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm Year 1996

Our game: an American baseball history
156731130X, 9781466856226, 9781567311303

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Table of contents :
The New York game --
The professional game --
The national pastime and the serfs' revolt --
Baseball feudalism and the rise of the American League --
The dead-ball era --
War, scandal, and Babe Ruth --
The golden twenties --
The gray thirties --
War, plenty, and the end of Jim Crow --
Shrinking crowds and shifting franchises --
The expansion era --
The end of feudalism --
The embattled eighties --
Non-sesquicentennial reflections.

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