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Author Vaught, David, 1958-

Title The Farmers' Game : Baseball in Rural America / David Vaught
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 214 pages) : illustrations
Contents Abner Doubleday and Baseball's Idol of Origins -- Playing Ball in Cooperstown in the Formative Years of the American Republic -- Baseball and the Transformation of Rural California -- Multicultural Ball in the Heyday of Texas Cotton Agriculture -- The Making of Bob Feller and the Modern American Farmer -- The Milroy Yankees and the Decline of Southwest Minnesota -- Gaylord Perry, the Spitter, and Farm Life in Eastern North Carolina -- Vintage Ball
Summary The author examines the history and character of baseball through a series of essay-vignettes. He presents the sport as essentially rural, reflecting the nature of farm and small-town life. This book does not deny or devalue the lively stickball games played in the streets of Brooklyn, but highlights the history of the game in the rural United States as related and mutually revealing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Baseball -- United States -- History
Baseball -- Social aspects -- United States
Country life -- United States -- History
Farm life -- United States -- History
Baseball
Baseball -- Social aspects
Country life
Farm life
Rural conditions
SUBJECT United States -- Rural conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140507
Subject United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012017647
ISBN 1421408333
9781421408330