National pastime : U.S. history through baseball /: U.S. history through baseball. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Martin C. Babicz, Thomas W. Zeiler.
• Authors: Babicz, Martin C; Zeiler, Thomas W
• Contents: Acknowledgments; Foreword; ; Chapter 1: Baseball in Tocqueville’s America (To 1870); Chapter 2: The Industrialization of Leisure (1871 to 1883); Chapter 3: Color and Global Barriers (1865 to 1918); Chapter 4: The American Labor Movement & the Players’ League (1884 to 1891); Chapter 5: Progressivism and the American League (1892 to 1903); Chapter 6: Normalcy and the Black Sox Scandal (1904 to 1922); Chapter 7: Babe Ruth and the Roaring Twenties (1920 to 1929); Chapter 8: Segregation and the Negro Leagues (1896 to 1949); Chapter 9: Baseball and the Great Depression (1929 to 1940); Chapter 10: Baseball Goes to War (1941 to 1945); Chapter 11: Jackie Robinson and Civil Rights (1946 to 1987); Chapter 12: The Postwar American Century (1945 to 1964); Chapter 13: Change and Revolution (1960 to 1975); Chapter 14: Baseball in Post-Industrial America (Since 1975); Chapter 15: A Global Game (Since 1865); ; Epilogue: Traditions; Bibliographic Essay
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 796.3570973; Baseball -- United States -- History; Baseball -- Social aspects -- United States; United States -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781442235854
• Related ISBNs: 9781442235847
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