Contributor
Dreifort, John E.
Imprint:Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2001.
Descriptionxvii, 363 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:Part 1: THE NATIONAL PASTIME: 1. The base ball fraternity / Warren Goldstein -- 2. The country of the young: the meaning of baseball in early American culture / Ronald Story -- 3. Professional baseball and social mobility / Steven A. Riess -- 4. Baseball and the reconstitution of American masculinity, 1880-1920 / Michael S. Kimmel -- 5. Sol White and the origin of African American baseball / Jerry Malloy -- Part 2: THE GOLDEN ERA: 6. The Chicago Black Sox and the myth of baseball's single sin / David Q. Voigt -- 7. Here comes the judge! The origins of baseball's commissioner system and American legal culture / Norman L. Rosenberg -- 8. The changing style of play: Cobb vs. Ruth / Leverett T. Smith, Jr. -- 9. Jim Crow strikes out: interracial baseball in Wichita, Kansas, 1920-1935 / Jason Pendleton -- 10. The athlete as Jewish standard bearer: media images of Hank Greenberg / William M. Simons -- Part 3: THE NATIONAL GAME: 11. A spectacular season: Jackie Robinson breaks through / Jules Tygiel -- 12. Playing a man's game: women and baseball in the United States, 1866-1954 / Debra Shattuck -- 13. The demise of the Philadelphia Athletics / Bruce Kuklick -- 14. More legacy of conquest: long-term ramifications of the Major League baseball shift to the west / Ron Briley -- 15. Whatever happened to the "good ol' days"? The evolution of baseball's labor-management relations / Daniel R. Marburger -- Part 4: THE INTERNATIONAL GAME: 16. Baseball and the quest for national dignity in Meiji Japan / Donald Roden -- 17. Canada in the country of baseball / William Humber -- 18. Viva baseball! The beginnings of Latin American baseball / Samuel O. Regalado.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-348) and index.
