The Culture and Ethnicity of Nineteenth Century Baseball

The Culture and Ethnicity of Nineteenth Century Baseball
ISBN-10
0786498900
ISBN-13
9780786498901
Category
Sports & Recreation
Pages
216
Language
English
Published
2017-05-15
Publisher
McFarland
Author
Jerrold I. Casway

Description

"Well organized...highly recommended...satisfying...enjoyable read"--Nineteenth Century Research Committee, SABR "This book provides important insights into baseball during the nineteenth century. The author makes good use of both primary and secondary source material and demonstrates a very good grasp of the sport's evolution and its impact on American culture."--David K. Wiggins, co-author, The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of the African American Experience in Sport. Evolving in an urban landscape, professional baseball attracted a dedicated fan base among the inhabitants of major cities, including ethnic and racial minorities, for whom the game was a vehicle for assimilation. But to what extent were these groups welcomed within the world of baseball, and what effect did their integration--or, as in the case of African Americans, their ultimate inability to integrate--have on the culture of a pastime that had recently become a national obsession? How did their mutual striving for acceptance affect relations between these minorities? (In deep and long-lasting ways, as it turns out.) This book provides a carefully considered portrait of baseball as both a sporting profession--one with quick-changing rules and roles--and as an institution that reinforced popular ideas about cultural identity, masculinity and American exceptionalism.

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