| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 639 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Sandlot and cow pasture -- Double curves and magic bats -- Every mother ought to rejoice -- Scrub ball is not enough -- From sandlot to municipal diamond -- New sponsors and old -- A sure way to a boy's heart -- Boys' baseball in midpassage -- Baseball goes to college -- The principal college game -- Husky muckers intrude -- College or kindergarten -- Down-home baseball -- Wider horizons down home -- Time off to play ball -- Business prefers ball players -- For love and money -- Tournaments, trophies, and cash -- The armed forces enlist baseball -- Soldiers and sailors play ball at home and abroad -- The armed forces draft baseball -- The armed forces after World War I -- Baseball's progeny -- From traditional paths to base paths -- Baseball breaks into prison -- Mostly home games -- Other breeds without the law -- Who ever heard of a girls' baseball club? -- More diamonds for college women -- Women touch all the bases -- Goldilocks is benched -- Intramural versus intercollegiate ball for women -- The beginnings of black baseball -- If he had a white face -- Not from dragon's teeth -- A long, rough road still to travel -- Two strikes called before you bat |
| Summary |
Hailed by Sports Illustrated as the "Edward Gibbon of baseball history," Harold Seymour is the first professional historian to produce an authoritative, multivolume chronicle of America's national pastime. The first two volumes of this study--The Early Years and The Golden Age--won universalacclaim. The New York Times wrote that they "will grip every American who has invested part of his youth and dreams in the sport," while The Boston Globe called them "irresistible." Now, in The People's Game, Seymour offers the first book devoted entirely to the history of the game outside of the professi |
| Notes |
Co-authored by Dorothy Seymour Mills |
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"Dorothy Seymour Mills has been added by Oxford University Press as co-author of an acclaimed three-volume history of baseball originally attributed solely to her husband."--Sioux City Journal, July 25, 2010 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Baseball -- United States -- History
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Baseball -- History.
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Baseball
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mills, Dorothy Seymour.
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| ISBN |
9780198020967 |
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0198020961 |
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0199879265 |
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9780199879267 |
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9786610605644 |
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6610605645 |
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1280605642 |
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9781280605642 |
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9780195038903 |
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0195038908 |
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0195069072 |
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9780195069075 |
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