Charles Demotte

James T. Farrell and Baseball (eBook, PDF)

Dreams and Realism on Chicago's South Side

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496218728
• Artikelnr.: 72326512

Autorenporträt

Charles DeMotte is an adjunct professor of sociology at the State University of New York College at Cortland. He is the author of Bat, Ball, and Bible: Baseball and Sunday Observance in New York (Potomac Books, 2012).  

Inhaltsangabe

Preface    
Acknowledgments    
Introduction    
1. Growing Up on the South Side    
2. Farrell, Baseball, and the Making of a Literary Mind    
3. Danny O’Neill’s Baseball Dreams    
4. Chicago’s Summer Pastime    
5. The College Game, Baseball Diplomacy, and the Summer Controversy    
6. Rube Foster and Chicago’s Black South Side Teams     
7. Comiskey and Chicago’s White South Side Team    
8. The Business of Baseball     
9. The Fix, the Scandal, and the Response    
10. Looking Backward    
Epilogue    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index