Cambridge Companion to Baseball

Name: Cambridge Companion to Baseball
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ISBN: 9780521145756

ISBN-10: 0521145759

ISBN-13: 9780521145756

Edition: 2011

Authors: Leonard Cassuto, Stephen Partridge

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Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/21/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Leonard Cassuto is Professor of English at Fordham University.

Stephen Partridge is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia.



List of illustrations


List of contributors


Acknowledgments


Baseball: a chronology



Introduction




The rules of baseball




Baseball in literature, baseball as literature




Babe Ruth, sabermetrics, and baseball's politics of greatness



Interchapter: Babe Ruth




Not the major leagues: Japanese and Mexican Americans and the national pastime




Baseball and the color line: from the Negro Leagues to the major leagues



Interchapter: Jackie Robinson and Curt Flood




Baseball and war




Baseball and the American city



Interchapter: Walter O'Malley




Baseball at the movies




The baseball fan




Baseball and material culture



Interchapter: the Honus Wagner T-206 baseball card




Global baseball: Japan and East Asia



Interchapter: Roberto Clemente and Ichiro




Global baseball: Latin America




Cheating in baseball



Interchapter: Pete Rose




Baseball's economic development



Interchapter: Andy Messersmith, Charlie Finley, and George Steinbrenner




Baseball and mass media



A guide to further reading


Index