The American Game: Baseball and Ethnicity

by Richard A. Johnson

Book Overview

These nine essays selected by Lawrence Baldassaro and Richard A. Johnson present for the first time in a single volume an ethnic and racial profile of American baseball. These essayists show how the gradual involvement by various ethnic and racial groups reflects the changing nature of baseball--and of American society as a whole--over the course of the twentieth century.

Although the sport could not truly be called representative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809324466
• ISBN13: 9780809324460
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"