American Game: Baseball and Ethnicity

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The 9 essays in this collection present an ethnic

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By Lawrence A. Baldassaro (ed); Richard A. Johnson (ed); Allan H. (Bud) Selig (fr)
Year: 2002
Pages: 214
Binding Paperback
ISBN 809324466

Product Code: 1422394212

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The 9 essays in this collection present an ethnic & racial profile of Amer. baseball (BB). Shows how the gradual involvement by various ethnic & racial groups reflects the changing nature of BB over the course of the 20th cent. Contents: The Many Fathers of BB: Anglo-Amer. & the Early Game; German Amer. in Major League BB: Sport & Acculturation; ‘Slide, Kelly, Slide’: The Irish in Amer. BB; Unreconciled Strivings: BB in Jim Crow Amer.; Before Joe D: Early Italian Amer. in the Major Leagues; From Pike to Green with Greenberg in Between: Jewish Amer. & the National Pastime; Diamonds Out of the Coal Mines: Slavic Amer. in BB; Latin Quarter in the Major Leagues: Adjustment & Achieve; & BB & Racism’s Traveling Eye: The Asian Pacific Amer. Exper.

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