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1.
Diamonds in the Rough: The Untold History of Baseball
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press 2004
Subjects:
Baseball--United States--History
Baseball--Social Aspects--United States
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...Curve The French—play baseball? Wine tasting, out! Handkissing...2014jamais! In fact, baseball is being played these daysby...European and international competitions and there are signsthat baseball may finally be catching on...imported culture.The first baseball game to which the French...
2.
Extra Bases: Reflections on Jackie Robinson, Race, and Baseball History
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Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press 2002
Subjects:
Baseball--United States--History
Discrimination in Sports--United States
Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972
United States--Race Relations
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...York City to witness the first baseball telecast. The game originated atColumbia...Dunlop reported, “Seeing baseball on television istoo confining...era. In theprofessional realm, only baseball among the team sports, and boxing amongthe individual competitions, had broad followings. Football and...
3.
Baseball: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
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Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press 2005
Subjects:
Baseball--Social Aspects--United States
Popular Culture--United States
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...itsrelative decline, college baseball remainstoo important to ignore...first intercol­legiate baseball contest, in 1859, was acU...WilliamsCollege on July 1 (a baseball game) and4 (a chess match). Amherst won both.College baseball spread during the 1860sthroughout...athletic professorsjoined the competitions.Colleges in the West added...
4.
Cy Young: A Baseball Life
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Publisher:
University of Massachusetts Press 2000
Subjects:
Young, Cy, 1867-1955
Baseball Players--United States--Biography
Pitchers (Baseball)--United States--Biography
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...dimensions of the mod­ern baseball diamond. But this rule change...abstractly at the game of baseball from the viewpoint ofgeneric competition.Baseball is a point game; that is...this respect it differs from competitions like racing, wherethe task...2014 the ball with which baseball is played does not itselftally...
5.
Much More Than a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball since 1921
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Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press 2001
Subjects:
Baseball--Economic Aspects--United States--History--20th Century
Baseball Players--United States--Economic Conditions--20th Century
Baseball Team Owners--United States--Economic Conditions--20th Century
Industrial Relations--United States--History--20th Century
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...labor policy they wanted. Baseball historians unwittinglyobscure...they deniedthat Organized Baseball had an official policy of...businesses by permittingformal competitions with his clubs or by even...had presentedOrganized Baseball with a dire emergency that...surprisingly, then, the white baseball industry placed its faith...
6.
Chief Bender's Burden: The Silent Struggle of a Baseball Star
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Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press 2008
Subjects:
Baseball Players--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Biography
Indian Baseball Players--United States--Biography
Philadelphia Athletics (Baseball Team)--Biography
Bender, Charles Albert, 1883-1954
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...ballplayers with diamonds. During his baseball career and for years after, Bender also...was an adult thathe entered sanctioned competitions, and he often placed at or near thetop...already suspected it,] Bender said in Baseball Magazine, [but tomake sure that there...
7.
The American Game: Baseball and Ethnicity
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Publisher:
Southern Illinois University Press 2002
Subjects:
Baseball--Social Aspects--United States
Ethnicity--United States
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...the thriving sand­lot competitions in Milwaukee and became the...but logical effect: while baseball indeed acted as an agent ofassimilation...Chicago set up its own local baseball league toguard its youth against...ofsport. More and more, baseball became part of the fabric...
8.
Baseball and Philosophy: Thinking outside the Batter's Box
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Publisher:
Open Court 2004
Subjects:
Baseball--Social Aspects--United States
Sports--Philosophy
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...else are we tounderstand basketball star Michael Jordan and baseball pitcherRoger Clemens still competing at age 40, though...learn does­n't wither so quickly.Just as the baseball player must actively engage in active test­ing...wisdom. These conversations became his own kind ofathletic competitions, a means for testing himself against thegreat minds of...
9.
A History of Australian Baseball: Time and Game
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Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press 2003
Subjects:
Baseball--Australia--History
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...2014dies at age twenty-seven. Baseball declines for five years.1897Australian team tours United States and Britain amid controversy, poor...finance to come home.1898First major baseball competitions in Australia, including the first...
10.
Playing in Isolation: A History of Baseball in Taiwan
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Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press 2007
Subjects:
Baseball--Taiwan--History
Baseball Players--Taiwan--History
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...victory amateur baseball came to depend...let alone for baseball. What money was...thansummer camp-style competitions held in the United States. These lat­ter competitions included Little League baseball, which received...
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