Baseball: A History of America's Game - Couverture souple

Rader, Benjamin G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0252088808 ISBN 13 : 9780252088803

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2025

Synopsis

Analytics, technology, and the most ambitious rewrite of the rulebook in fifty years have reshaped baseball. Benjamin G. Rader’s account of the American pastime moves from diamonds scratched out of commons and corn fields to the multimedia theme parks doubling as today’s baseball stadiums. The fifth edition follows the long arc of the game’s history into the third decade of the twenty-first century, an era rich in innovation but even richer from revenue streams undreamt-of by the plutocrats of old. Rader brings readers up to date with looks at the Astros cheating scandal, on-the-field changes from power pitchers to ghost runners, data-driven player development and career rebirth, and the one-of-a-kind Shohei Ohtani. Engrossing and complete, Baseball, Fifth Edition, offers a comprehensive tour of the game and its place within American society and culture.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Benjamin G. Rader is the James L. Sellers Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the coauthor of American Sports: From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Televised Sports, Seventh Edition.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252088808
• ISBN 13: 9780252088803
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 5
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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