Touching Base: Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Era
- ISBN-10
- 0252067754
- ISBN-13
- 9780252067754
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 308
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Author
- Steven A. Riess
Description
Discusses the ideology of baseball, professional baseball and urban politics, politics, ballparks, and the neighborhoods, social reform, and baseball as a source of social mobility.
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