Add to ORKGHow Baseball Explains America is a fascinating, one-of-a-kind journey through America's pastime. Hal Bodley explores just how essential baseball is to understanding the American experience. An unabashedly celebratory explanation of America's love affair with baseball and the men who make it possible, this work sheds light on topics such as the role Jackie Robinson's signing with the Dodgers played in the civil rights movement, how baseball's westward expansion mirrored the growth of our national economy, labor strife, baseball families, the international explosion of the game, and even the myriad ways in which movies, music, and baseball are intrinsically tied
Chapter 1 in Baseball and American Culture Across the Diamond, edited by Frank Hoffmann, Edward J Ri...
Between 1880 and 1939, America underwent a series of significant economic and social transitions as...
Baseball emerged as America\u27s first mass popular sport during the period of industrialization. Th...
It\u27s our game . . . America\u27s game: it has the snap, go, fling of the American atmosphere--bel...
Presenting views from a variety of sport and history experts, Baseball in America and America in Bas...
“People ask me what I do in the winter when there\u27s no baseball. I\u27ll tell you what I do. I st...
One particular American sport arguably surpasses all others in reflecting U.S. society: the national...
Robert Frost once wrote “I am never more at home in America than at a baseball game.” To some Americ...
Mixing sharp political analysis and compelling lore, an eye-opening look at baseball’s relationship ...
Baseball has been proudly coined “the national pastime” for nearly its entire existence. The sport e...
On Monday afternoon two weeks ago, men who were at home sat glued to their comfortable chairs beside...
This narrative contains the documentation and interpretation of two imaginative pastimes (radio and ...
Baseball Beyond Our Borders celebrates the globalization of the game while highlighting the differen...
As the self-proclaimed and generally acknowledged national pastime, baseball has generally tried its...
In Baseball Rebels Peter Dreier and Robert Elias examine the key social challenges—racism, sexism an...
Chapter 1 in Baseball and American Culture Across the Diamond, edited by Frank Hoffmann, Edward J Ri...
Between 1880 and 1939, America underwent a series of significant economic and social transitions as...
Baseball emerged as America\u27s first mass popular sport during the period of industrialization. Th...
It\u27s our game . . . America\u27s game: it has the snap, go, fling of the American atmosphere--bel...
Presenting views from a variety of sport and history experts, Baseball in America and America in Bas...
“People ask me what I do in the winter when there\u27s no baseball. I\u27ll tell you what I do. I st...
One particular American sport arguably surpasses all others in reflecting U.S. society: the national...
Robert Frost once wrote “I am never more at home in America than at a baseball game.” To some Americ...
Mixing sharp political analysis and compelling lore, an eye-opening look at baseball’s relationship ...
Baseball has been proudly coined “the national pastime” for nearly its entire existence. The sport e...
On Monday afternoon two weeks ago, men who were at home sat glued to their comfortable chairs beside...
This narrative contains the documentation and interpretation of two imaginative pastimes (radio and ...
Baseball Beyond Our Borders celebrates the globalization of the game while highlighting the differen...
As the self-proclaimed and generally acknowledged national pastime, baseball has generally tried its...
In Baseball Rebels Peter Dreier and Robert Elias examine the key social challenges—racism, sexism an...
Chapter 1 in Baseball and American Culture Across the Diamond, edited by Frank Hoffmann, Edward J Ri...
Between 1880 and 1939, America underwent a series of significant economic and social transitions as...
Baseball emerged as America\u27s first mass popular sport during the period of industrialization. Th...