The Culture and Ethnicity of Nineteenth Century Baseball
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-9890-1 (ISBN)
Evolving in an urban landscape, professional baseball attracted a dedicated fan base among the inhabitants of major cities, including ethnic and racial minorities, for whom the game was a vehicle for assimilation. But to what extent were these groups welcomed within the world of baseball, and what effect did their integration--or, as in the case of African Americans, their ultimate inability to integrate--have on the culture of a pastime that had recently become a national obsession? How did their mutual striving for acceptance affect relations between these minorities? (In deep and long-lasting ways, as it turns out.)
This book provides a carefully considered portrait of baseball as both a sporting profession--one with quick-changing rules and roles--and as an institution that reinforced popular ideas about cultural identity, masculinity and American exceptionalism.
Jerrold I. Casway is a professor emeritus of history at Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland. The author of two books, he has published more than sixty articles covering seventeenth-century Irish history and nineteenth-century baseball topics.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Who Played the Game?
2. The Irish and Jim Crow Baseball
3. A Line Is Drawn in Pennsylvania
4. Before Greenberg There Was Pike
5. Ted Sullivan and Baseball’s Hibernian Spirit
6. From Famine Fields to the Ball Fields and the Front Office
7. The Pedigrees of Nineteenth Century Managers
8. Ballplayer: A Seasonal Occupation
9. Two Fathers for Philadelphia Baseball
10. Intemperance on the Emerald Diamond
11. The Ladies They Will All Turn Out
12. “A Game Played by Idiots for Morons”
13. Root, Root, Rooting for the Home Team
14. In Open Fields and on Wooden Planks
15. Huzzah for the Class of ’45
Epilogue
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.09.2016 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | notes, bibliography, index |
| Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 295 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7864-9890-0 / 0786498900 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7864-9890-1 / 9780786498901 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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