Baseball's Great Experiment

Baseball's Great Experiment
Author: Jules Tygiel
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780195106206


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Offers a history of African American exclusion from baseball, and assesses the changing racial attitudes that led up to Jackie Robinson's acceptance by the Brooklyn Dodgers.


Baseball's Great Experiment
Language: en
Pages: 452
Authors: Jules Tygiel
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Offers a history of African American exclusion from baseball, and assesses the changing racial attitudes that led up to Jackie Robinson's acceptance by the Broo
Extra Bases
Language: en
Pages: 182
Authors: Jules Tygiel
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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A collection of previously published essays exploring various aspects of baseball history includes an introduction to baseball historiography and a discussion o
Past Time
Language: en
Pages: 290
Authors: Jules Tygiel
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Discusses baseball's history and the game's relationship to American society from the 1850s until the present day.
A People's History of Baseball
Language: en
Pages: 298
Authors: Mitchell Nathanson
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-30 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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Baseball is much more than the national pastime. It has become an emblem of America itself. From its initial popularity in the mid-nineteenth century, the game
Playing for Keeps
Language: en
Pages: 213
Authors: Warren Jay Goldstein
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-26 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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In the late 1850s organized baseball was a club-based fraternal sport thriving in the cultures of respectable artisans, clerks and shopkeepers, and middle-class