Our game: an American baseball history

✍ Scribed by Alexander, Charles C

• Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.;MJF Books
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The New York game -- The professional game -- The national pastime and the serfs' revolt -- Baseball feudalism and the rise of the American League -- The dead-ball era -- War, scandal, and Babe Ruth -- The golden twenties -- The gray thirties -- War, plenty, and the end of Jim Crow -- Shrinking crowds and shifting franchises -- The expansion era -- The end of feudalism -- The embattled eighties -- Non-sesquicentennial reflections.

✦ Table of Contents

The New York game --
The professional game --
The national pastime and the serfs' revolt --
Baseball feudalism and the rise of the American League --
The dead-ball era --
War, scandal, and Babe Ruth --
The golden twenties --
The gray thirties --
War, plenty, and the end of Jim Crow --
Shrinking crowds and shifting franchises --
The expansion era --
The end of feudalism --
The embattled eighties --
Non-sesquicentennial reflections.

✦ Subjects

Baseball--United States--History;Baseball;History;Baseball -- United States -- History;United States