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The Age of Ruth and Landis

Author : David George Surdam
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496205731
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Ruth and Landis written by David George Surdam and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the 1919 World Series scandal simmered throughout the 1920 season, tight pennant races drove attendance to new peaks and presaged a decade of general prosperity for baseball. Babe Ruth shattered his own home-run record and, buoyed by a booming economy, professional sports enjoyed what sportswriters termed a “Golden Age of Sports.” Throughout the tumultuous 1920s, Major League Baseball remained a mixture of competition and cooperation. Teams could improve by player trades, buying Minor League stars, or signing untried youths. Players and owners had their usual contentious relationship, with owners maintaining considerable control over their players. Owners adjusted the game so that the 1920s witnessed a surge in slugging and a diminution in base stealing, and they provided a better ballpark experience by both improving their stadiums and minimizing disruptions by rowdy fans. However, they hesitated to adapt to new technologies such as radio, electrical lighting, and air travel. The Major Leagues remained an enclave for white people, while African Americans toiled in the newly established Negro Leagues, where salaries and profits were skimpy. By analyzing the economic and financial aspects of Major League Baseball, The Age of Ruth and Landis shows how baseball during the 1920s experienced both strife and prosperity, innovation and conservatism. With figures such as the incomparable Babe Ruth, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Rogers Hornsby, Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Tris Speaker, and Eddie Collins, the decade featured an exciting brand of livelier baseball, new stadiums, and overall stability.

The Age of Ruth and Landis

Author : David George Surdam
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803296827
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Ruth and Landis written by David George Surdam and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Economic history of Major League Baseball during the pivotal 1920s"--

Jazz Age Giant

Author : Robert F. Garratt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496223713
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Jazz Age Giant written by Robert F. Garratt and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Charles A. Stoneham's years owning and running the New York Giants in the 1920s.

Babe Ruth's Called Shot

Author : Ed Sherman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493007920
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Babe Ruth's Called Shot written by Ed Sherman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anticipation of another showdown with the Bambino transformed Wrigley Field. Temporary bleachers held the overflow of the 50,000-strong crowd that bright September day. Game 3 of the 1932 World Series between the Cubs and Yankees stood locked at 4-4. An angry mob, rocking the ballpark with pent-up fury, aimed itself squarely at him. He had never experienced anything like it. But above the almost deafening noise, the slugger could hear the tide of barbs pouring at him from the Cubs’ dugout. They called him a busher, a fat slob, and other names not fit to print at the time. He took the first pitch for a strike, stepped out of the box, and collected himself. Cubs pitcher Charlie Root threw two balls, and Ruth watched a fastball cut the corner to set the count at 2 and 2. On the on-deck circle, Lou Gehrig heard Ruth call out to Root: “I’m going to knock the next one down your goddamn throat.” Ruth took a deep breath, raised his arm, and held out two fingers toward centerfield. As Root wound up, the crowd roared in expectation. It was a change-up curve, low and away, but it came in flat and without bite. The ball compressed on impact with Ruth’s bat and began its long journey into history, whizzing past the centerfield flag pole. No one had ever gone that far at Wrigley—not even Cubs hitter Hack Wilson. Estimates put its distance at nearly 500 feet. Ruth practically sprinted around the bases. Video cameras of the day raced to catch up with him, his teammates cracking that they hadn’t seen him run that fast in a long time. Then he flashed four fingers at the Cubs infielders and their dugout: The series was going to be over in four games. In that moment, the legend of the Called Shot was born, but the debate over what Ruth had actually done on the afternoon of October 1, 1932, had just begun.

Double Plays and Double Crosses

Author : Don Zminda
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1538142333
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Double Plays and Double Crosses written by Don Zminda and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping story of how one of the most infamous scandals in American history—the Black Sox scandal—continued for nearly a year following the fixed World Series of 1919 until the truth began to emerge. The Black Sox scandal has fascinated sports fans for over one hundred years. But while the focus has traditionally been on the fixed 1919 World Series, the reality is that it continued well into the following season—and members of the Chicago White Sox very likely continued to fix games. The result was a year of suspicion, intrigue, and continued betrayal. In Double Plays and Double Crosses: The Black Sox and Baseball in 1920, Don Zminda tells the story of an unforgettable team and an unforgettable year in baseball and American history. Zminda reveals in captivating detail how the Black Sox scandal unfolded in 1920, the level of involvement in game-fixing by notable players like Shoeless Joe Jackson and Buck Weaver, and the complicity of White Sox management in covering up details of the scandal. In addition, Zminda provides an in-depth investigation of games during the 1920 season that were likely fixed and the discovery during the year of other game-fixing scandals that rocked baseball. Throughout 1920, the White Sox continued to play—and usually win—despite mistrust among teammates. Double Plays and Double Crosses tells for the first time what happened during this season, when suspicion was rampant and the team was divided between “clean” players and those suspected of fixing the 1919 World Series.

Middle Innings

Author : Dean A. Sullivan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803292833
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Middle Innings written by Dean A. Sullivan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dean A. Sullivan presents a fascinating array of provocative, unexpected, and illuminating materials that reveal the rich history of baseball. The 105 pieces in this work cover such topics as the Merkle Boner, Jim Thorpe, Christy Mathewson, the Black Sox scandal, Lou Gehrig, the death of Ray Chapman, Ty Cobb, Dizzy Dean, and more from the storied major leagues. Lesser-known treasures celebrate semipro teams, boys' baseball fiction, Japanese baseball, college ball, black baseball, the minor leagues, women's teams, and other facets of the wonderful game of baseball.

Baseball Under the Lights

Author : Charlie Bevis
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147664232X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Baseball Under the Lights written by Charlie Bevis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Night games transformed the business of professional baseball, as the smaller, demographically narrower audiences able to attend daytime games gave way to larger, more diversified crowds of nighttime spectators. Many ball club owners were initially conflicted about artificial lighting and later actually resisted expanding the number of night games during the sport's struggle to balance ballpark attendance and television viewership in the 1950s. This first-ever comprehensive history of night baseball examines the factors, obstacles and trends that shaped this dramatic change in both the minor and major leagues between 1930 and 1990.

Ty Cobb, Baseball, and American Manhood

Author : Steven Elliott Tripp
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442251921
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Ty Cobb, Baseball, and American Manhood written by Steven Elliott Tripp and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first baseball player to achieve real celebrity status, Ty Cobb embodies the strength and determination of classic masculinity. His grit and stubbornness, however, form a legacy that has been both lauded and condemned by America’s own changing views of ideal masculine behavior. With attention to Cobb’s formation, personal tragedies, and struggles with his peers, Steven Elliott Tripp examines this baseball icon as a product of the American South and as an emblem of a masculinity now out of fashion.

Baseball: An Illustrated History

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271040967
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Baseball: An Illustrated History written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 200? with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Baseball, 3rd Ed.

Author : Benjamin G. Rader
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252095529
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Baseball, 3rd Ed. written by Benjamin G. Rader and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2008-05-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third edition of his lively history of America's game--widely recognized as the best of its kind--Benjamin G. Rader expands his scope to include commentary on Major League Baseball through the 2006 season: record crowds and record income, construction of new ballparks, a change in the strike zone, a surge in recruiting Japanese players, and an emerging cadre of explosive long-ball hitters.

The Dad Report: Fathers, Sons, and Baseball Families

Author : Kevin Cook
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393246019
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Dad Report: Fathers, Sons, and Baseball Families written by Kevin Cook and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable look at how baseball families share our national pastime. Baseball honors legacies—from cheering the home team to breaking in an old glove handed down from father to son. In The Dad Report, award-winning sportswriter Kevin Cook weaves a tapestry of uplifting stories in which fathers and sons—from the sport's superstars to Cook and his own ball-playing father—share the game. Almost two hundred father-son pairs have played in the big leagues. Cook takes us inside the clubhouses, homes, and lives of many of the greats. Aaron Boone follows grandfather Bob, father Ray, and brother Bret to the majors—three generations of All-Stars. Barry Bonds and Ken Griffey Jr. strive to outdo their famous dads. Michael Jordan walks away from basketball to play minor-league baseball—to fulfill his father's dream. In visiting these legendary families, Cook discovers that ball-playing families are a lot like our own. Dan Haren regrets the long road trips that keep him from his kids. Ike Davis and his father, a former Yankee, debate whether Ike should pitch or play first base. Buddy Bell leads a generation of big-leaguers determined to open their workplace—the clubhouse—to their kids. Framing The Dad Report is the story of Kevin Cook's own father, Art Cook, a minor-league pitcher, a loveable rogue with a wicked screwball. In Art's later years, Kevin phoned him almost every night to talk baseball. They called those nightly conversations "the Dad Report." In time, Kevin came to see that these conversations were about much more than the game. That's what this book is about: the way fathers and sons talk baseball as a way of talking about everything—courage, fear, fun, family, morality, mortality, and how it's not whether you win or lose that counts, it's how you share the game.

Regulating the National Pastime

Author : Jerold J. Duquette
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313001170
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Regulating the National Pastime written by Jerold J. Duquette and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-11-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major League Baseball, alone among industries of its size in the United States, operates as an unregulated monopoly. This 20th-century regulatory anomaly has become known as the baseball anomaly. Major League Baseball developed into a major commercial enterprise without being subject to antitrust liability. Long after the interstate commercial character of baseball had been established and even recognized by the Supreme Court, baseball's monopoly remained free from federal regulation. Duquette explains the baseball anomaly by connecting baseball's regulatory status to the larger political environment, tracing the game's fate through four different regulatory regimes. The constellation of institutional, ideological, and political factors within each regulatory regime provides the context for the survival of the baseball anomaly. Duquette shows baseball's unregulated monopoly persists because of the confluence of institutional, ideological, and political factors which have prevented the repeal of baseball's antitrust exemption to date. However, both the institutional and ideological factors are fading fast. Baseball's owners can no longer claim special cultural significance in defense of their exemption. Nor can they credibly claim that the commissioner system approximates government regulation effectively. Both of these strategies have been discredited by the labor unrest of the 1980s and 1990s. Duquette provides a unique perspective on American regulatory politics, and by explaining a complicated story in comprehensive prose, he has given researchers, policy makers, and fans a fascinating look at the business of baseball.

Martyrs Mirror

Author : David Weaver-Zercher
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421418827
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Martyrs Mirror written by David Weaver-Zercher and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I: The Prehistory and Production of The Bloody Theater -- CHAPTER 1. Anabaptism: Origins, Spread, and Persecution -- CHAPTER 2. Memorializing Martyrdom before The Bloody Theater -- CHAPTER 3. Thieleman van Braght and the Publication of The Bloody Theater -- CHAPTER 4. The Bloody Theater: Martyr Stories and More -- PART II: Van Braght's Martyrology through the Years -- CHAPTER 5. The Bloody Theater Illustrated: The 1685 Martyrs Mirror -- CHAPTER 6. A North American Edition: The 1748-49 Ephrata Martyrs Mirror

The American Century

Author : Walter LaFeber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317478401
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The American Century written by Walter LaFeber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of this classic text on modern U.S. history brings the story of contemporary America into the second decade of the twenty-first century with new coverage of the Obama presidency and the 2012 elections. Written by three highly respected scholars, the book seamlessly blends political, social, cultural, intellectual, and economic themes into an authoritative and readable account of our increasingly complex national story. The seventh edition retains its affordability and conciseness while continuing to add the most recent scholarship. Each chapter contains a special feature section devoted to cultural topics including the arts and architecture, sports and recreation, technology and education. Adding to the readers' learning experience is the addition of web links to each of these features, providing numerous complementary visual study tools. These links become live, and illustrations appear in full color, in the ebook edition. An American Century instructor site provides instructors who adopt the book with high interest features--illustrations, photos, maps, quizzes, an elaboration of key themes in the book, PowerPoint presentations, and lecture launchers on topics including the Versailles Conference, the "Military-Industrial Complex" Speech by Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Tet Offensive, and the prospects for a Second American Century. In addition, students have free access to a multimedia primary source archive of materials carefully selected to support the themes of each chapter.

THE AMERICAN CENTURY

Author : Walter LaFeber, Richard Polenberg, and Nancy Woloch
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 0765640465
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (656 download)

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Download or read book THE AMERICAN CENTURY written by Walter LaFeber, Richard Polenberg, and Nancy Woloch and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The American Century

Author : Walter F. LaFeber
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 0765629011
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (656 download)

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Download or read book The American Century written by Walter F. LaFeber and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2013 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Negro Leagues Baseball

Author : Roger Bruns
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Negro Leagues Baseball written by Roger Bruns and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the entire story of black baseball, documenting the growth of the Negro Leagues at a time when segregation dictated that the major leagues were strictly white, and explaining how the drive to integrate the sport was a pivotal part of the American civil rights movement. Part of Greenwood's Landmarks of the American Mosaic series, this work is a one-stop introduction to the subject of Negro League baseball that spotlights the achievements and experiences of black ball players during the time of segregation—ones that must not be allowed to fade into obscurity. Telling far more than a story about sports that includes engaging tales of star athletes like "Satchel" Paige and "Cool Papa" Bell, Negro Leagues Baseball documents an essential chapter of American history rooted in the fight for civil rights and human dignity and the battle against racism and bigotry. The book comprises an introduction, chronology, and narrative chapters, as well as biographical profiles, primary documents, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. The recounting of individual stories and historical events will fascinate general readers, while rarely used documentary material places the subject of Negro League baseball in relation to civil rights issues, making the book invaluable to students of American social history and culture.