Berra, Rizzuto, Lasorda, Torre, Conigliaro, Santo, Piazza. Casual
baseball fans--in fact, even many nonfans--know these names, not as
Italian Americans, but as some of the most colorful figures in
Major League Baseball. Ever since future Hall of Famer Tony Lazzeri
became a key part of the Yankees' Murderers' Row lineup of 1926,
Italian Americans have been among the most prominent and intriguing
players in the game. The first comprehensive study of the topic,
"Beyond DiMaggio" is also a social history of baseball, tracing the
evolution of American perceptions toward those of Italian descent
as it chronicles the baseball exploits that influenced those
perceptions.
Lawrence Baldassaro tells the stories of Italian Americans'
contributions to the game, from Joe DiMaggio, who transcended his
ethnic identity to become an American icon, to A. Bartlett
Giamatti, who served as commissioner of baseball, to Mike Piazza,
considered the greatest hitting catcher ever. Baldassaro conducted
more than fifty interviews with players, coaches, managers, and
executives--some with careers dating back to the thirties--in order
to put all these figures and their stories into the historical
context of baseball, Italian Americans, and, finally, the culture
of American sports.
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