Baseball
A History of America's Game
3rd Edition
Published on 1. May 2008
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-0-252-03302-5 (ISBN)
Description
In this third edition of his lively history of America's game--widely recognized as the best of its kind--Benjamin G. Rader expands his scope to include commentary on Major League Baseball through the 2006 season: record crowds and record income, construction of new ballparks, a change in the strike zone, a surge in recruiting Japanese players, and an emerging cadre of explosive long-ball hitters.
Reviews / Votes
"A grand slam... An entertaining, insightful history of the national pastime set within the context of major issues in American society... By far the finest one-volume history of America's game ever written." --Larry R. Gerlach, author of The Men in Blue: Conversations with UmpiresMore details
Series
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
27 photographs
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-252-03302-5 (9780252033025)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Book
05/2008
University of Illinois Press
€19.80
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Person
Benjamin G. Rader is James L. Sellers Professor of History at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and the author of American Sports: From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Televised Sports.