Baseball : a history of America's game [WorldCat Entities]

"Bookmaker. The drama of the bottom of the ninth. Now as before, baseball remains America's game. This is the first book to show why."
"A lively, compact history of the game, including commentary on baseball in the 1990s, covering topics such as the Latino invasion, the building of retroparks, and the dizzying race for new home-run records."@en
"A lively, compact history of the game, including commentary on baseball in the 1990s, covering topics such as the Latino invasion, the building of retroparks, and the dizzying race for new home-run records."
"American society never had an aristocracy, a state-sponsored church, or a rigid class system. What it does have is baseball. Now, in Baseball: A History of America's Game, Benjamin Rader reexamines the story of the pastime that helped shape American society. From baseball's days as "the only game in town" through today's wave of Hollywood sports nostalgia, America's greatest heroes have been ballplayers - Babe Ruth, Joe Dimaggio, Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron. Rader."
"In this third edition of his lively history of America's game, widely recognized as the best of its kind, Benjamin G. Rader expands his scope to include commentary on Major League Baseball through the 2006 season: record crowds and record income, construction of new ballparks, a change in the strike zone, a surge in recruiting Japanese players, and an emerging cadre of explosive long-ball hitters."@en
"In this third edition of his lively history of America's game, widely recognized as the best of its kind, Benjamin G. Rader expands his scope to include commentary on Major League Baseball through the 2006 season: record crowds and record income, construction of new ballparks, a change in the strike zone, a surge in recruiting Japanese players, and an emerging cadre of explosive long-ball hitters."
"Analyzes baseball's mythology - one complete with rites, shrines, and even a creation myth. For decades, Rader suggests, a city's ball club was perhaps the fullest expression of its identity. Today, in the era of suburbia, Soloflex, and slow-motion replays, America has changed, and baseball's role with it. Yet in many ways the game's essence has stayed quietly constant: Three strikes, three outs. The confrontation of pitcher versus batter. The illicit temptation of the."