Chasing Baseball

Our Obsession with Its History, Numbers, People and Places

Dorothy Seymour Mills (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

266 Seiten

2010
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-4289-8 (ISBN)

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Despite worries about baseball's decline, interest in memorabilia, fantasy baseball, exhibits, and the games themselves indicate the sport is surviving steroid scandals, negative publicity, and the perception that the game is more nostalgia than a part of current popular culture. This book shows no sport elicits the passion that baseball does.

For more than five decades, pioneering researcher Dorothy Seymour Mills has studied and written about baseball's past. With this groundbreaking book, she turns her attention to the historians, stat hounds, and many thousands of not-so-casual fans whose fascination with the game and its history, like her own, defies easy explanation. As Mills demonstrates, baseball elicits a passion--and inspires a slightly off-kilter, obsessive behavior--that is only slightly less interesting than the people who indulge it.

The late Dorothy Seymour Mills was the author of 24 books. The first female historian in the Society for American Baseball Research, she was a member of the Association for Women in Sports Media and lived in Tucson, Arizona. Visit her website at www.dorothyjanemills.com.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Richard C. Crepeau

Preface

PART ONE. A MANLY PURSUIT

1. Our National Game

2. The Amateur Spirit

3. Our Heroes

4. The Pantheon

5. Go Figure

6. Is Baseball the God Game?

7. Baseball and Our Other National Sport: Business

8. Brakes on Our Pursuit

PART TWO. A WOMANLY PURSUIT

9. Can Women Be Baseball Stars?

10. Girls and Women Who Excelled

11. Girls Are Children, Too

12. The Courage of Baseball Women

13. What Baseball Discrimination Is Like

14. Women Fans Follow Their Passion

15. Baseball Women of the Future

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.1.2010
Zusatzinfo	13 photos, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	345 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7864-4289-1 / 0786442891
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-4289-8 / 9780786442898
Zustand	Neuware