Baseball as America: seeing ourselves through our national game
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Publication Date
c2002
Language
English
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From the Book
Our national spirit (From God's country and mine / Jacques Barzun
Baseball is our game ; To the patriotic lovers of America's game / Walt Whitman
Spalding's Commission / Tom Shieber and Ted Spencer
Baseball in Japan : the national pastime beyond national character / William Kelly
The rise of the World Series / Neil Harris
Letter from military prison / Albert D. Richardson
Green light letter / Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The front lines to the backyard / Tom Brokaw
Baseball in a time of crisis / Allan H. (Bud) Selig)
Ideals and injustices (From History of colored baseball / Sol White
This morning / Shirley Povich
Letter of invitation / F.H. LaGuardia
It didn't happen overnight / Buck O'Neil
Baseball and ethnicity / Steven Riess
From my baseball years / Philip Roth
Induction speech / Ted Williams
World Series speech / Jackie Robinson
Roberto Clemente : activist and pioneer / Bruce Markusen
Baseball migrants : dreaming in Dominican / Milton Jamail
Enjoying it hugely / Annie Glidden
Diamonds for girls / C.C. Johnson Spink
Muscle in the Bud / Barbara Gregorich)
Rooting for the team (From The natural / Bernard Malamud
Obituary of Elizabeth Dooley / Dan Shaughnessy
Music of the sphere / Tim Wiles
Fathers eating hot dogs with sons / Molly O'Neill
Leave the plate at home / Charles Camp
A gift / Michael Chabon
Why the Minnesota Twins have such big heads / Karal Ann Marling
From raising demons / Shirley Jackson
Growing up with the game / John Grisham
Our national pastime / Dave Barry
The minors : touching the American heart / David Lamb
We never called them bums / Roger Kahn
The language of numbers / Bill James
You, too, can be a general manager! / Daniel Okrent)
Enterprise and opportunity (Never far from the counting house / Warren Jay Goldstein
A ball, a bat, and a bet / Eliot Asinof
The peculiar business of baseball / Andrew Zimbalist
Leveling the playing field / Gary S. Becker
From Standing the Gaff / Harry "Steamboat" Johnson
Umpires and rules / Larry Gerlach
A can of beer, a slice of cake
and thou, Eddie Gaedel from Veeck as in wreck / Bill Veeck and Ed Linn
Beyond the bleachers : enhancing the fan experience / David Rockwell
Baubles, bangles, and bubble gum : baseball collectibles / Richard Merkin and Lawrence S. Ritter
Fighting the reserve clause / Curt Flood/Bowie Kuhn)
Sharing a common culture (Casey at bat / Ernest L. Thayer
The big show on the big screen / Joshua Siegel
Reflections on The natural / Barry Levinson with Joshua Siegel
A league of our own / Penny Marshall, Lowell Ganz, and Babaloo Mandel
Baseball as art : the American vernacular / Shelly Mehlman Dinhofer
Charlie Brown : American baseball icon / John Odell
On the air / Curt Smith)
Invention and ingenuity (About second basemen / Bid McPhee
Pitching and hitting curveballs / Robert K. Adair
The home run / George Plimpton
What wood you rather use? / Craig M. Vogel
Communicating baseball / Neil Harris)
Weaving myths (From Shoeless Joe / W.P. Kinsella
American diamonds / Gerald Early
Farewell / Roger Angell
There used to be a ballpark / Joe Raposo
The silent superstar / Paul Simon
Nobody will ever play baseball / Bob Newhart
The mythopoetics of place and memory / Charles F. Springwood
From Shoeless Joe / W.P.Kinsella.
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9780792264644
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