George Gmelch

Playing with Tigers

A Minor League Chronicle of the Sixties

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Produktbeschreibung

George Gmelch is a professor of anthropology at the University of San Francisco and at Union College in Schenectady, New York. He is the author of fourteen books, including In the Field: Life and Work in Cultural Anthropology; In the Ballpark: The Working Lives of Baseball People, with J. J. Weiner (Bison Books, 2006); Inside Pitch: Life in Professional Baseball (Bison Books, 2006); and Baseball Beyond our Borders: The International Pastime, with Dan Nathan (Nebraska, 2018). ¿

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 163mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780803276819
• ISBN-10: 0803276818
• Artikelnr.: 42651874

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations    
Acknowledgments    
Introduction    
1. Ambition for the Game    
2. Breaking In: Duluth-Superior Dukes    
3. Wearing Kaline’s Pants: Jamestown Tigers    
4. A Little Wildness: Jamestown Tigers    
5. Spring Training: Tiger Town    
6. Putting Up Numbers: Daytona Beach Islanders    
7. Moving Up: Daytona to Rocky Mount    
8. Double Passage: The Carolinas    
9. Southern Exposure: The Rocky Mount Leafs    
10. When the Cheering Stops: The Rocky Mount Leafs    
11. Exiled: The Québec Provincial League    
12. Lights Out: Drummondville Les Royaux    
Epilogue    
Appendix: What They Did after Baseball    
Notes