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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-10 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 292
Pages: 292
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 293
Pages: 293
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-13 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
From its modest beginnings in rural America to its current status as an entertainment industry in postindustrial America enjoyed worldwide by millions each seas
Language: en
Pages: 298
Pages: 298
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-30 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 308
Pages: 308
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-03-01 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
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
