Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 The rules of baseball
- 2 Baseball in literature, baseball as literature
- 3 Babe Ruth, sabermetrics, and baseball’s politics of greatness
- 4 Not the major leagues: Japanese and Mexican Americans and the national pastime
- 5 Baseball and the color line: from the Negro Leagues to the major leagues
- 6 Baseball and war
- 7 Baseball and the American city
- 8 Baseball at the movies
- 9 The baseball fan
- 10 Baseball and material culture
- 11 Global baseball: Japan and East Asia
- 12 Global baseball: Latin America
- 13 Cheating in baseball
- 14 Baseball’s economic development
- 15 Baseball and mass media
- A guide to further reading
- Index
A guide to further reading
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 The rules of baseball
- 2 Baseball in literature, baseball as literature
- 3 Babe Ruth, sabermetrics, and baseball’s politics of greatness
- 4 Not the major leagues: Japanese and Mexican Americans and the national pastime
- 5 Baseball and the color line: from the Negro Leagues to the major leagues
- 6 Baseball and war
- 7 Baseball and the American city
- 8 Baseball at the movies
- 9 The baseball fan
- 10 Baseball and material culture
- 11 Global baseball: Japan and East Asia
- 12 Global baseball: Latin America
- 13 Cheating in baseball
- 14 Baseball’s economic development
- 15 Baseball and mass media
- A guide to further reading
- Index
Summary
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- The Cambridge Companion to Baseball , pp. 241 - 244Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011