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The American game [baseball...
These nine essays selected by Lawrence Baldassaro and Richard A. Johnson present an ethnic and racial profile of American baseball. These essayists show how the gradual involvement by various ethnic and racial groups reflects the changing nature of baseball-and of American society as a whole-over the course of the twentieth century. Although the sport could not truly be called representative of America until after Jackie Robinson broke the color line in 1947, fascination with the ethnic backgrounds of the players began more than a century ago when athletes of German and Irish descent entered the major leagues in large numbers. In the 1920s, commentators noted the influx of ballplayers of Italian and Slavic origins and wondered why there were not more Jewish players in the big leagues. The era following World War II, however, saw the most dramatic ethnographic shift with the belated entry of African American ballplayers. The pattern of ethnic succession continues as players of Hispanic and Asian origin infuse fresh excitement and renewal into the major leagues
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monografia Rebiun24270494 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun24270494 m o d cr cn||||||||| 030924s2002 ilua sb 001 0 eng d 0585467994 9780585467993 0809324458 9780809324453 0809324466 9780809324460 UAM 991008027455004211 NT eng pn NT YDXCP OCLCG OCLCQ TUU OCLCQ TNF OCLCQ ZCU OCLCO OCLCE OCLCF OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ PIFBR OCLCQ WY@ LUE VNS VTS AGLDB GDC UNAV 796.357 22 The American game Recurso electrónico] baseball and ethnicity edited by Lawrence Baldassaro and Richard A. Johnson ; with a foreword by Allan H. (Bud) Selig Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press 2002 Carbondale Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press xiv, 214 p. il xiv, 214 p. EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete Writing baseball Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice Many fathers of baseball : Anglo-Americans and the early game Frederick Ivor-Campbell. -- German Americans in major league baseball : sport and acculturation Larry R. Gerlach. -- "Slide, Kelly, slide" : the Irish in American baseball Richard F. Peterson. -- Unreconciled strivings : baseball in Jim Crow America Jules Tygiel. -- Before Joe D : early Italian Americans in the major leagues Lawrence Baldassaro. -- From Pike to Green with Greenberg in between : Jewish Americans and the national pastime Steven A. Riess. -- Diamonds out of the coal mines : Slavic Americans in baseball Neal Pease. -- Latin quarter in the major leagues : adjustment and achievement Samuel O. Regalado. -- Baseball and racism's traveling eye : the Asian Pacific American experience Joel S. Franks These nine essays selected by Lawrence Baldassaro and Richard A. Johnson present an ethnic and racial profile of American baseball. These essayists show how the gradual involvement by various ethnic and racial groups reflects the changing nature of baseball-and of American society as a whole-over the course of the twentieth century. Although the sport could not truly be called representative of America until after Jackie Robinson broke the color line in 1947, fascination with the ethnic backgrounds of the players began more than a century ago when athletes of German and Irish descent entered the major leagues in large numbers. In the 1920s, commentators noted the influx of ballplayers of Italian and Slavic origins and wondered why there were not more Jewish players in the big leagues. The era following World War II, however, saw the most dramatic ethnographic shift with the belated entry of African American ballplayers. The pattern of ethnic succession continues as players of Hispanic and Asian origin infuse fresh excitement and renewal into the major leagues Forma de acceso: World Wide Web Baldassaro, Lawrence Johnson, Dick 1955-)