| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 214 pages) : illustrations |
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Writing baseball |
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Writing baseball.
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| Contents |
Many fathers of baseball : Anglo-Americans and the early game / Frederick Ivor-Campbell -- German Americans in major league baseball : sport and acculturation / Larry R. Gerlach -- "Slide, Kelly, slide" : the Irish in American baseball / Richard F. Peterson -- Unreconciled strivings : baseball in Jim Crow America / Jules Tygiel -- Before Joe D : early Italian Americans in the major leagues / Lawrence Baldassaro -- From Pike to Green with Greenberg in between : Jewish Americans and the national pastime / Steven A. Riess -- Diamonds out of the coal mines : Slavic Americans in baseball / Neal Pease -- Latin quarter in the major leagues : adjustment and achievement / Samuel O. Regalado -- Baseball and racism's traveling eye : the Asian Pacific American experience / Joel S. Franks |
| Summary |
These nine essays selected by Lawrence Baldassaro and Richard A. Johnson present an ethnic and racial profile of American baseball. These essayists show how the gradual involvement by various ethnic and racial groups reflects the changing nature of baseball-and of American society as a whole-over the course of the twentieth century. Although the sport could not truly be called representative of America until after Jackie Robinson broke the color line in 1947, fascination with the ethnic backgrounds of the players began more than a century ago when athletes of German and Irish descent entered the major leagues in large numbers. In the 1920s, commentators noted the influx of ballplayers of Italian and Slavic origins and wondered why there were not more Jewish players in the big leagues. The era following World War II, however, saw the most dramatic ethnographic shift with the belated entry of African American ballplayers. The pattern of ethnic succession continues as players of Hispanic and Asian origin infuse fresh excitement and renewal into the major leagues |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Baseball -- Social aspects -- United States
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Ethnicity -- United States
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Baseball -- Essays & Writings.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Baseball -- Statistics.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Baseball -- History.
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Baseball -- Social aspects
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Ethnicity
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Honkbal.
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Etnische groepen.
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United States
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Baldassaro, Lawrence
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Johnson, Dick, 1955-
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| ISBN |
0585467994 |
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9780585467993 |
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