The Farmers' Game: Baseball in Rural America - Couverture rigide

Vaught, David

 
9781421407555: The Farmers' Game: Baseball in Rural America
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ISBN 10 : 1421407558 ISBN 13 : 9781421407555
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013

Synopsis

How rural America shapes America's favorite pastime.

Winner of the SABR Baseball Research Award of the Society for American Baseball Research

Anyone who has watched the film Field of Dreams can't help but be captivated by the lead character's vision. He gives his struggling farming community a magical place where the smell of roasted peanuts gently wafts over the crowded grandstand on a warm summer evening just as the star pitcher takes the mound.

Baseball, America's game, has a dedicated following and a rich history. Fans obsess over comparative statistics and celebrate men who played for legendary teams during the "golden age" of the game. In The Farmers' Game, David Vaught examines the history and character of baseball through a series of essay-vignettes. He presents the sport as essentially rural, reflecting the nature of farm and small-town life.

Vaught does not deny or devalue the lively stickball games played in the streets of Brooklyn, but he sees the history of the game and the rural United States as related and mutually revealing. His subjects include nineteenth-century Cooperstown, the playing fields of Texas and Minnesota, the rural communities of California, the great farmer-pitcher Bob Feller, and the notorious Gaylord Perry.

Although--contrary to legend--Abner Doubleday did not invent baseball in a cow pasture in upstate New York, many fans enjoy the game for its nostalgic qualities. Vaught's deeply researched exploration of baseball's rural roots helps explain its enduring popularity.

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À propos de l?auteur

David Vaught is a professor of history at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875-1920, also published by Johns Hopkins.

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Éditeur
Johns Hopkins University Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1421407558
ISBN 13 
9781421407555
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
232
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