A people's history of baseball /Mitchell Nathanson.
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2012.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
1.A Game of Their Own -- 2. The Sovereign Nation of Baseball -- 3. Rickey, Race, and "All Deliberate Speed" -- 4. Tearing Down the Walls -- 5."Wait 'Til Next Year" and the Denial of History -- 6. The Storytellers.
Probes the other side of baseball history--episodes not involving equality, patriotism, heroism, and virtuous capitalism, but power--how it is obtained, how it perpetuates itself, and how it affects the game.
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