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Creating the National Pastime
G. Edward White
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Description for Creating the National Pastime
Paperback. Shows how seemingly irrational business decisions, inspired in part by the self-interest of the owners but also by their nostalgia for the game, transformed baseball into the national pastime. Num Pages: 384 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBTB; JFC; KNSP; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 542.
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 part by the self-interest of the owners but also by their nostalgia for the game, transformed baseball into the national pastime. Not simply a professional sport, baseball has been treated as a focus of childhood rituals and an emblem of American individuality and fair play throughout much of the twentieth century. It started out, however, as a marginal urban sport associated with drinking and gambling. White describes its progression to an almost ... Read more
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 part by the self-interest of the owners but also by their nostalgia for the game, transformed baseball into the national pastime. Not simply a professional sport, baseball has been treated as a focus of childhood rituals and an emblem of American individuality and fair play throughout much of the twentieth century. It started out, however, as a marginal urban sport associated with drinking and gambling. White describes its progression to an almost ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691058856
SKU
V9780691058856
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Ref
99-15
About G. Edward White
G. Edward White is University Professor and John B. Minor Professor of Law and History at the University of Virginia. His books include The Marshall Court and Cultural Change, 1815-1835 and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self.
Reviews for Creating the National Pastime
"An astute examination of how baseball emerged as the national pastime... Things liven up when [White] looks at the gambling and cheating that were a part of the game early in the century, and when he examines the growth and economic importance of night baseball and of radio and TV broadcasts... Baseball cognoscenti will find plenty to chew on here."
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