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Author

Riess, Steven A.

Title Touching base : professional baseball and American culture in the Progressive Era / Steven A. Riess.

Imprint

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1999.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	796.35709 R446t	---	Available

Edition	Rev. ed.
Description	x, 308 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Series	Sport and society
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-295) and index.
Contents	Take me out to the ball game : the crowd and the ideology of baseball -- Professional baseball and urban politics -- Politics, ballparks, and the neighborhoods -- Professional Sunday baseball and social reform -- Professional baseball as a source of social mobility.
Subject	Baseball -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Baseball -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN	0252067754 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	0252024672 (cloth : alk. paper)
	0761914102