Understanding Baseball: A Textbook

Trey Strecker,Steven P. Gietschier,Mitchell Nathanson,John A. Fortunato,David George Surdam

ISBN 10: 0786476311 / ISBN 13: 9780786476312

Editore: McFarland & Co 2015-01-30, 2015

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Titolo: Understanding Baseball: A Textbook

Casa editrice: McFarland & Co 2015-01-30

Data di pubblicazione: 2015

Legatura: Paperback

Condizione: New

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"Intended as a readable textbook for undergraduates and their instructors, Understanding Baseball is designed to offer insights and inroads into baseball history as a rewarding academic subject worthy of careful scholarly attention. Each chapter introduces a specific disciplinary approach to baseball--history, economics, media, law, and fiction--and covers representative questions scholars from that academic field might consider"--

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The study of baseball history and culture reveals the national game as a contested field where debates about sport, character, work and play, the country and the city, labor, race, and a host of other issues, circulate. Understanding baseball, then, calls for careful consideration of several different perspectives and what each contributes to the conversation. Intended as a readable textbook for undergraduates (and perhaps advanced high school students) and their instructors, Understanding Baseball is designed to offer insights and inroads into baseball history as a rewarding academic subject worthy of careful scholarly attention. Each chapter introduces a specific disciplinary approach to baseball - in this edition, history, economics, media, law, and fiction - and covers representative questions scholars from that academic field might consider.