Reading Baseball: Books, Biographies, and the Business of the Game
Author and scholar Braham Dabscheck muses upon some of baseball's silent yet magnificently important treasures. He examines several topics, including the business of the game (industrial and labor relations, Curt Flood, law, and organized baseball); social commentary and biographies (the work of Stephen Jay Gould and Ken Burns, for example); and culture of the game as it spreads across the globe to places like Australia, Japan, and Latin America. This collection of essays is both insightful and remarkable, and is a valuable companion to any enthusiast.

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Reading Baseball: Books, Biographies, and the Business of the Game
Author and scholar Braham Dabscheck muses upon some of baseball's silent yet magnificently important treasures. He examines several topics, including the business of the game (industrial and labor relations, Curt Flood, law, and organized baseball); social commentary and biographies (the work of Stephen Jay Gould and Ken Burns, for example); and culture of the game as it spreads across the globe to places like Australia, Japan, and Latin America. This collection of essays is both insightful and remarkable, and is a valuable companion to any enthusiast.

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Reading Baseball: Books, Biographies, and the Business of the Game

Reading Baseball: Books, Biographies, and the Business of the Game

by Braham Dabscheck
Reading Baseball: Books, Biographies, and the Business of the Game

Reading Baseball: Books, Biographies, and the Business of the Game

by Braham Dabscheck

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Author and scholar Braham Dabscheck muses upon some of baseball's silent yet magnificently important treasures. He examines several topics, including the business of the game (industrial and labor relations, Curt Flood, law, and organized baseball); social commentary and biographies (the work of Stephen Jay Gould and Ken Burns, for example); and culture of the game as it spreads across the globe to places like Australia, Japan, and Latin America. This collection of essays is both insightful and remarkable, and is a valuable companion to any enthusiast.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781935412243
Publisher: Fitness Info Tech,West Virginia University
Publication date: 04/16/2011
Pages: 238
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Acknowledgments xv

Preface xix

Part I Business

Chapter 1 A Simple Matter of Control: Industrial Relations in American Baseball 3

Chapter 2 Sport, Law, America! 21

Chapter 3 An American Hero: Curt Flood and His Struggle Against Organized Baseball 35

Chapter 4 The Sporting Cartel in History 49

Part II Books and Biographies

Chapter 5 Stephen Jay Gould Finds Joy in Mudville 75

Chapter 6 Baseball and Philosophy 81

Chapter 7 Baseball: A Refuge from America 85

Chapter 8 Baseball Biographies: The Darling of Whiteball and the Epicenter of Blackball 97

Chapter 9 Branch Rickey: Baseball's Master Paternalist 103

Chapter 10 Shadows in the Spotlight: Two Jewish-American Baseball Players 117

Chapter 11 Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Barry Bonds: The Rise and Fall of American Baseball Stars 129

Chapter 12 The Commissioners 139

Part III Boundaries and Borderlands

Chapter 13 The Formation and Early Years of the Australian Baseball League 145

Chapter 14 Spalding's World Tour and Baseball in Asia 187

Chapter 15 Latinos and the National Pastime 195

Recommended Readings 201

Index 205

About the Author 213

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