| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 194 pages) |
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Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Loving the game -- Ballparks I have known / Bob Boynton -- Choosing baseball / Bob Wilson -- day of salvation / Roy Branson -- essence of the game / Michael V. Miranda -- kid's catch-22 of the '54 series / Woodrow W. Whidden -- Dad and a cast of (almost) thousands / Jan Finkel -- How the baseball bug bit / Dave Anderson -- catch / Gary Huffaker -- Rounding the bases / Larry Brunt -- impossible dream / Terrie Dopp Aamodt -- Loving and learning the game / Tom Nahigian -- How baseball turned me into a Californian / Keith Francis -- pt. 2 Playing the game -- My father never took me to a baseball game / Walter Kephart -- hill / Willie Runquist -- Marvelous Marv / Dennis Brislen -- tennis court / Gene Carney -- Little chiefs / Benjamin McArthur -- Take two and hit it into the trees in right / Terry Sloope -- Looking for a game of ball / Dave Anderson -- game of bunt / Charlie Bevis -- clincher / Eric C. Hageman -- sandlots of Berkeley / Merritt Clifton -- mounds of summer / David Petreman -- pt. 3 game off the field -- Diceball and pingball / Bob Boynton -- Island games / Paul L. Wysard -- Elks league / Edward Luteran -- Lawn baseball solitaire / Delmer Davis -- All kinds of ball games / David A. Goss -- Off the wall / Al Smitley -- Playing my cards right / Edward J. Rielly -- Just me and the barn / Edward J. Rielly |
| Summary |
An anecdotal history of America's pastime from the 1930s to the 1990s, Growing Up with Baseball shows us how it was watched, played, and lived not by superstar athletes and multimillionaire owners but by everyday people. A missionary's son learns to read by comparing the sports reports in Time Magazine with Mel Allen's announcing over Armed Forces Radio; a young girl reaches puberty at approximately the same time that the Red Sox get their "impossible dream" pennant; boys gather by day to play ball on an old Pittsburgh tennis court, then camp there at night while listening to the Pirates on the radio; a young man encounters the Fogarty brothers, of Credence Clearwater Revival, on the sandlots of Berkeley |
| 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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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Baseball -- United States -- Anecdotes
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Baseball fans -- United States -- Anecdotes
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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
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Baseball fans
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Land, Gary, 1944-2014.
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| ISBN |
080320423X |
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9780803204232 |
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1280423692 |
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9781280423697 |
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9786610423699 |
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6610423695 |
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