Introduction
1. The National Game: Reflectionson the Rise of Baseball in the
1850s and 1860s
2. The Mortar of Which Baseball is Held Together: Henry Chadwick
and the Invention of Baseball Statistics
3. Incarnations of Success: Charles Comiskey, Connie Mack, John
McGraw, and Clark Griffith
4. New Ways of Knowing: Baseball in the 1920s
5. Adjusting to the New Order: Branch Rickey, Larry MacPhail, and
the Great Depression
6. Unreconciled Strivings: Baseball in Jim Crow America
7. The Shot Heard Round the World
8. The Homes of the Braves: Baseball's Shifting Geography,
1953-1972
9. Populist Baseball: Baseball Fantasies in the 1980s
Notes
Index
Jules Tygiel is Professor of History at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and his Legacy.
"An engaging foray into the ways in which Americans have enjoyed
and interpreted baseball throughout several generations of its
existance."--Doubletake
"The essays here cover baseball from the 1850s to the present, and
Tygiel's incisive style is apparent in each. Tygiel brings to life
such interesting though little remembered individuals as Henry
Chadwick, whom Tygiel deems the founder of baseball
statistics."--Library JournaL
"In this collection of nine essays, [Tygiel has] gathered energetic
and cogent discussions of the game. The National Game shows how the
earlier version of baseball played in New York became the basis for
the modern game...Adjusting to the New Order fascinates with a
portrait of Henry Chadwick, the inventor of the stat....Perhaps the
finest, The Homes of the Braves explores how the movement of teams
in the 1950's and 1960's, starting
with the Braves' move from Boston to Milwaukee in 1953, reflected
America's changing demographics."--Publishers Weekly
"Tygiel demonstrates...that baseball, far from being a freak show
at the periphery of the country's public and important business,
has been part and parcel of that business throughout its
history....Just as we can no longer isolate popular culture from
the larger culture of which it is a part, so we must acknowledge
and explore the deeper meanings of aspects of our lives that
previously were scanted or ignored. Baseball, which is indeed our
'national game' unto
this day, is one of these, and [this book] treats it with the
seriousness it deserves."--The Washington Post Book World
"A collection of essays by baseball's preeminent historian...Tygiel
comments on different stages of baseball history as reflections of
the economic, social and technological trends of their respective
periods."--The Seattle Times
"Baseball's deep, continual integration into American society is
the theme in this book. [It] consists of independent chapters that
focus on how society shaped the game, and vice versa, during
specific periods of American history."--The Columbus Dispatch
"The book tracks baseball's journey as it adjusts to--and is
modified by--economic and social changes in America, the invention
of the radio and TV, the westward migration, etc."--The San
Francisco Chronicle
"An engaging foray into the ways in which Americans have enjoyed and interpreted baseball throughout several generations of its existance."--Doubletake "The essays here cover baseball from the 1850s to the present, and Tygiel's incisive style is apparent in each. Tygiel brings to life such interesting though little remembered individuals as Henry Chadwick, whom Tygiel deems the founder of baseball statistics."--Library JournaL "In this collection of nine essays, [Tygiel has] gathered energetic and cogent discussions of the game. The National Game shows how the earlier version of baseball played in New York became the basis for the modern game...Adjusting to the New Order fascinates with a portrait of Henry Chadwick, the inventor of the stat....Perhaps the finest, The Homes of the Braves explores how the movement of teams in the 1950's and 1960's, starting with the Braves' move from Boston to Milwaukee in 1953, reflected America's changing demographics."--Publishers Weekly "Tygiel demonstrates...that baseball, far from being a freak show at the periphery of the country's public and important business, has been part and parcel of that business throughout its history....Just as we can no longer isolate popular culture from the larger culture of which it is a part, so we must acknowledge and explore the deeper meanings of aspects of our lives that previously were scanted or ignored. Baseball, which is indeed our 'national game' unto this day, is one of these, and [this book] treats it with the seriousness it deserves."--The Washington Post Book World "A collection of essays by baseball's preeminent historian...Tygiel comments on different stages of baseball history as reflections of the economic, social and technological trends of their respective periods."--The Seattle Times "Baseball's deep, continual integration into American society is the theme in this book. [It] consists of independent chapters that focus on how society shaped the game, and vice versa, during specific periods of American history."--The Columbus Dispatch "The book tracks baseball's journey as it adjusts to--and is modified by--economic and social changes in America, the invention of the radio and TV, the westward migration, etc."--The San Francisco Chronicle
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