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A People's History of Baseball (Paperback)
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A People's History of Baseball (Paperback)
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Loot Price R512
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From its first pitch, baseball has reflected national values and
promoted the idea of what it means to be American. Beloved
narratives tied the national pastime to beliefs as fundamental to
our civic life as racial equality, patriotism, heroism, and
virtuous capitalism. Mitchell Nathanson calls foul. Rejecting the
myths and much-told tales, he examines how power is as much a part
of baseball--and America--as pine tar and eye black. Indeed, the
struggles for power within the game paralleled those that defined
our nation. Nathanson follows the new Americans who sought club
ownership to promote their social status in the increasingly closed
caste system of nineteenth-century America. He shows how the rise
and public rebuke of the Players Association reflects the
collective spirit of working and middle-class America in the
mid-twentieth century and the countervailing forces that sought to
beat back the emerging movement. He lays bare the debilitating
effects of a harsh double standard that required African American
players to possess an unimpeachable character merely to take the
field--a standard no white player had to meet. Told with passion
and righteous outrage, A People's History of Baseball offers an
incisive alternative history of America's much-loved--if
misunderstood--national pastime.
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