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Creating the National Pastime
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Pages: 385
Authors: G. Edward White
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-10 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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At a time when many baseball fans wish for the game to return to a purer past, G. Edward White shows how seemingly irrational business decisions, inspired in pa
National Pastime
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Stefan Szymanski
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

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Szymanski and Zimbalist pay special attention to the rich and complex evolution of baseball from its beginnings in America, and they trace modern soccer from it
National Pastime
Language: en
Pages: 293
Authors: Martin C. Babicz
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-13 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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From its modest beginnings in rural America to its current status as an entertainment industry in postindustrial America enjoyed worldwide by millions each seas
A People's History of Baseball
Language: en
Pages: 298
Authors: Mitchell Nathanson
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-30 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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Baseball is much more than the national pastime. It has become an emblem of America itself. From its initial popularity in the mid-nineteenth century, the game
Never Just a Game
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Robert F. Burk
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-03-01 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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America's national pastime has been marked from its inception by bitter struggles between owners and players over profit, power, and prestige. In this book, the