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Ballpark

Author : Paul Goldberger
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0525656243
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Ballpark written by Paul Goldberger and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhilarating, splendidly illustrated, entirely new look at the history of baseball: told through the stories of the vibrant and ever-changing ballparks where the game was and is staged, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic. From the earliest corrals of the mid-1800s (Union Grounds in Brooklyn was a "saloon in the open air"), to the much mourned parks of the early 1900s (Detroit's Tiger Stadium, Cincinnati's Palace of the Fans), to the stadiums we fill today, Paul Goldberger makes clear the inextricable bond between the American city and America's favorite pastime. In the changing locations and architecture of our ballparks, Goldberger reveals the manifestations of a changing society: the earliest ballparks evoked the Victorian age in their accommodations--bleachers for the riffraff, grandstands for the middle-class; the "concrete donuts" of the 1950s and '60s made plain television's grip on the public's attention; and more recent ballparks, like Baltimore's Camden Yards, signal a new way forward for stadium design and for baseball's role in urban development. Throughout, Goldberger shows us the way in which baseball's history is concurrent with our cultural history: the rise of urban parks and public transportation; the development of new building materials and engineering and design skills. And how the site details and the requirements of the game--the diamond, the outfields, the walls, the grandstands--shaped our most beloved ballparks. A fascinating, exuberant ode to the Edens at the heart of our cities--where dreams are as limitless as the outfields.

The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2013-2014

Author : William M. Simons
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786498897
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2013-2014 written by William M. Simons and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generally acknowledged as the preeminent gathering of baseball scholars, the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture has made significant contributions to baseball research and pedagogy. This collection of 17 new essays is selected from the approximately 100 presentations of the 2013 and the 2014 symposia, covering topics whose importance extends beyond the ballpark. Presented in six themed parts, the essays consider the congruence of culture and baseball, the importance of ballpark itself, the myths, legends and icons of the baseball imagination, international and ethnic game variations, the work of baseball museum curators and a context for the game's rules of play and labor.

Poet in the Grandstand

Author : Thomas Porky McDonald
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452073503
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Poet in the Grandstand written by Thomas Porky McDonald and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the area of ballpark hopping, there have been a number of accounts written, recorded or talked about in recent times, sometimes for a cause or others just as a gimmick. Through Poet in the Grandstand, poet and writer Thomas Porky McDonald gives us a most unique twist on a preoccupation which has grown in the past few decades, in the wake of the closings of classic old yards and the birth of the more entertainment and nostalgia driven open-air parks. From his first trip in 1990, to the fabled Comiskey Park of Shoeless Joe Jackson, Bill Veeck and the Go-Go Sox, on through to the 2010 opening of Minnesotas fabulous Target Field, featuring the modern M&M Boys, Joe Mauer and Justin Mourneau, McDonald offers up a book that is part travelogue and part poetic tribute to all the places that men and women have gone to over the years for a very personal sense of joy. This journey, done methodically, over two decades, picks up steam as the chapters begin to flow. The effect of McDonald himself clearly growing as a poet through the years is accentuated by the fact that more and more pieces are written in the later trips. The end result is a most interesting volume of not just ballparks, but Americana, as numerous attractions taken in during those ballpark weeks and weekends are also noted and/or dissected. For fourteen seasons on his own and then six more accompanied by friend and confidant Adam Boneker, McDonalds travels, highlighted by over 300 poems, can take the reader back to a simpler time or into the possibilities of the future. In chapter and in verse, Poet in the Grandstand has something for both the baseball enthusiast and the curious traveler. Fans of the game and lovers of the road will each find much to offer within these pages.

Tiger Stadium

Author : Michael Betzold,
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147663114X
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Tiger Stadium written by Michael Betzold, and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built in 1912, Detroit's Tiger Stadium provided unmatched access for generations of baseball fans. Based on a classic grandstand design, its development through the 20th century reflected the booming industrial city around it. Emphasizing utility over adornment and offering more fans affordable seats near the field than any other venue in sports, it was in every sense a working-class ballpark that made the game the central focus. Drawing on the perspectives of historians, architects, fans and players, the authors describe how Tiger Stadium grew and adapted and then, despite the efforts of fans, was abandoned and destroyed. It is a story of corporate welfare, politics and indifference to history pitted against an enduring love of place. Chronological diagrams illustrate the evolution of the playing field.

Editor & Publisher

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Editor & Publisher written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Even the Browns

Author : William B. Mead
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486145379
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Even the Browns written by William B. Mead and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now the Baltimore Orioles, the St. Louis Browns won their only pennant in 1944. This lighthearted look at America's Pastime during World War II reminisces about charity games, cigarette drives, and the bumbling Browns themselves.

Who's who in Writers, Editors & Poets, United States & Canada

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who's who in Writers, Editors & Poets, United States & Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Baseball as America

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Baseball as America written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of America's romance with baseball, this is the official companion volume to the National Baseball Hall of Fame's unprecedented national traveling exhibition. Over 200 archival photos.

Baseball Goes to War

Author : William B. Mead
Publisher : Broadcast Interview Source, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780934333382
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Baseball Goes to War written by William B. Mead and published by Broadcast Interview Source, Inc. This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bumbling St. Louis Browns won their only pennant during World War II, while Williams, DiMaggio, Feller and other stars were in uniform fighting--or playing ball--for Uncle Sam. This is the hilarious history of that era.

Before Brooklyn

Author : Ted Reinstein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493051229
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Before Brooklyn written by Ted Reinstein and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the April of 1945, exactly two years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, liberal Boston City Councilman Izzy Muchnick persuaded the Red Sox to try out three black players in return for a favorable vote to allow the team to play on Sundays. The Red Sox got the councilman’s much-needed vote, but the tryout was a sham; the three players would get no closer to the major leagues. It was a lost battle in a war that was ultimately won by Robinson in 1947. This book tells the story of the little-known heroes who fought segregation in baseball, from communist newspaper reporters to the Pullman car porters who saw to it that black newspapers espousing integration in professional sports reached the homes of blacks throughout the country. It also reminds us that the first black player in professional baseball was not Jackie Robinson but Moses Fleetwood Walker in 1884, and that for a time integrated teams were not that unusual. And then, as segregation throughout the country hardened, the exclusion of blacks in baseball quietly became the norm, and the battle for integration began anew.

Baseball Under the Lights

Author : Charlie Bevis
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476680159
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 2021-04-30 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.

Wins, Losses, and Empty Seats

Author : David George Surdam
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496209869
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Wins, Losses, and Empty Seats written by David George Surdam and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized baseball has survived its share of difficult times, and never was the state of the game more imperiled than during the Great Depression. Or was it? Remarkably, during the economic upheavals of the Depression none of the sixteen Major League Baseball teams folded or moved. In this economist's look at the sport as a business between 1929 and 1941, David George Surdam argues that although it was a very tough decade for baseball, the downturn didn't happen immediately. The 1930 season, after the stock market crash, had record attendance. But by 1931 attendance began to fall rapidly, plummeting 40 percent by 1933. To adjust, teams reduced expenses by cutting coaches and hiring player-managers. While even the best players, such as Babe Ruth, were forced to take pay cuts, most players continued to earn the same pay in terms of purchasing power. Baseball remained a great way to make a living. Revenue sharing helped the teams in small markets but not necessarily at the expense of big-city teams. Off the field, owners devised innovative solutions to keep the game afloat, including the development of the Minor League farm system, night baseball, and the first radio broadcasts to diversify teams' income sources. Using research from primary documents, Surdam analyzes how the economic structure and operations side of Major League Baseball during the Depression took a beating but managed to endure, albeit changed by the societal forces of its time.

Fun with the Family Illinois

Author : Lori Meek Schuldt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762766174
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Fun with the Family Illinois written by Lori Meek Schuldt and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geared towards parents with children between the ages of two and twelve, Fun with the Family Illinois features interesting facts and sidebars as well as practical tips about traveling with your little ones.

The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball, 2d ed.

Author : Jonathan Fraser Light
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476617449
Total Pages : 1112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball, 2d ed. written by Jonathan Fraser Light and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other sport, baseball has developed its own niche in America's culture and psyche. Some researchers spend years on detailed statistical analyses of minute parts of the game, while others wax poetic about its players and plays. Many trace the beginnings of the civil rights movement in part to the Major Leagues' decision to integrate, and the words and phrases of the game (for example, pinch-hitter and out in left field) have become common in our everyday language. From AARON, HENRY onward, this book covers all of what might be called the cultural aspects of baseball (as opposed to the number-rich statistical information so widely available elsewhere). Biographical sketches of all Hall of Fame players, owners, executives and umpires, as well as many of the sportswriters and broadcasters who have won the Spink and Frick awards, join entries for teams, owners, commissioners and league presidents. Advertising, agents, drafts, illegal substances, minor leagues, oldest players, perfect games, retired uniform numbers, superstitions, tripleheaders, and youngest players are among the thousands of entries herein. Most entries open with a topical quote and conclude with a brief bibliography of sources for further research. The whole work is exhaustively indexed and includes 119 photographs.

The Ultimate Minor League Baseball Road Trip

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9781599216270
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Ultimate Minor League Baseball Road Trip written by and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthusiastic, irreverent, but exhaustive guidebook to all the stadiums of Minor League Baseball, following up on the success of the first Ultimate Baseball Road Trip book, which was dedicated to Major League stadiums.

Who's who in U.S. Writers, Editors & Poets

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Who's who in U.S. Writers, Editors & Poets written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Diamonds

Author : Michael Gershman
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 9780395735244
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Diamonds written by Michael Gershman and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1995-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ballparks are repositories of family memory, unique places that link generations. Until now, no single volume has focused on the historical development of these special spaces, from the crossroads of neighboring cornfields to the intersections of state highways. In Diamonds, Michael Gershman carefully traces the often curious genesis of these cultural landmarks that mirror, in many respects, the evolution of our urban landscape. All the great parks - Wrigley Field, Fenway Park, Sportsman's Park, Ebbets Field, Shibe Park, Crosley Field, the Polo Grounds, Comiskey Park, Forbes Field, Tiger Stadium - and lesser-known gems - Baker Bowl, South End Grounds, Palace of the Fans, and Hilltop Park - are celebrated with a rich blend of meticulously researched history, illuminating anecdotes, rare photographs, and evocative illustrations. Diamonds also tells the story of more modern baseball palaces - Candlestick Park, the Astrodome, and Camden Yards - and describes parks that were proposed but ne