Mitchell Nathanson

A People's History of Baseball

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Probes the other side of baseball history--episodes not involving equality, patriotism, heroism, and virtuous capitalism, but power--how it is obtained, how it perpetuates itself, and how it affects the game.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780252036804
• ISBN-10: 0252036808
• Artikelnr.: 34554182

Autorenporträt

Mitchell Nathanson is a professor of legal writing at Villanova University School of Law and the author of The Fall of the 1977 Phillies: How a Baseball Team's Collapse Sank a City's Spirit.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments   ix
Prologue   xi
1 A Game of Their Own   1
2 The Sovereign Nation of Baseball   28
3 Rickey, Race, and "All Deliberate Speed"    67
4 Tearing Down the Walls   108
5 "Wait 'Til Next Year" and the Denial of History   146
6 The Storytellers   180
Notes   221
Bibliography   261
Index   271