Playing with Tigers

A Minor League Chronicle of the Sixties

George Gmelch (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

294 Seiten

2020
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-1958-9 (ISBN)

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In 1965 George Gmelch signed a contract to play professional baseball with the Detroit Tigers organization. Gmelch grew up sheltered in an all-white, affluent San Francisco suburb, and he knew little of the world outside. Over the next four seasons, he came of age in baseball’s Minor Leagues through experiences ranging from learning the craft of the professional game to becoming conscious of race and class for the first time.

Playing with Tigers is not a typical baseball memoir. Now a well-known anthropologist, Gmelch recounts a baseball education unlike any other as he got to know small-town life across the United States against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, civil rights protests, and the emergence of counterculture. The social and political turmoil of the times spilled into baseball, and Gmelch experienced the consequences firsthand as he played out his career in the Jim Crow South. Playing with Tigers immerses the reader in the life of the Minor Leagues, capturing the gritty, insular, and humorous life and culture of Minor League baseball during a period when both the author and the country were undergoing profound changes.

George Gmelch is a professor of anthropology at the University of San Francisco and at Union College in Schenectady, New York. He is the author of fourteen books, including In the Field: Life and Work in Cultural Anthropology; In the Ballpark: The Working Lives of Baseball People, with J. J. Weiner (Bison Books, 2006); Inside Pitch: Life in Professional Baseball (Bison Books, 2006); and Baseball Beyond Our Borders: An International Pastime, with Dan Nathan (Nebraska, 2017).

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Ambition for the Game
2. Breaking In: Duluth-Superior Dukes
3. Wearing Kaline’s Pants: Jamestown Tigers
4. A Little Wildness: Jamestown Tigers
5. Spring Training: Tiger Town
6. Putting Up Numbers: Daytona Beach Islanders
7. Moving Up: Daytona to Rocky Mount
8. Double Passage: The Carolinas
9. Southern Exposure: The Rocky Mount Leafs
10. When the Cheering Stops: The Rocky Mount Leafs
11. Exiled: The QuÉbec Provincial League
12. Lights Out: Drummondville Les Royaux
Epilogue
Appendix: What They Did after Baseball
Notes

Erscheinungsdatum	25.02.2020
Zusatzinfo	23 photographs, 1 table, 1 appendix
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
ISBN-10	1-4962-1958-9 / 1496219589
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-1958-9 / 9781496219589
Zustand	Neuware