Baseball a history of America's game
In this fourth edition, Benjamin G. Rader updates the text with a portrait of baseball's new order. He charts an on-the-field game transformed by analytics, an influx of Latino and Asian players, and a generation of players groomed for brute power both on the mound and at the plate. He also ana...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana (Ill.) :
University of Illinois Press
[2018]
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| Edición: | 4th ed |
| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Sport and society. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b40600312*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- The fraternity and its game
- A commercial spectacle
- The first professional teams
- The first professional leagues
- The players' revolt
- The great baseball war
- Baseball's coming of age
- The big fix
- The age of Ruth
- An age of dynasties
- Baseball's great experiment
- The last days of the old game
- Baseball in trouble
- The empowerment of the players
- The demise of dynasties
- The steroid era
- Baseball's new order.
