Böcker i Sports and American Culture Series-serien

The heart of professional baseball, if not its roots, may be found in the American Midwest, especially in Missouri. In Seasons in the Sun, Roger D. Launius offers an excellent overview of the teams, pennant races, trials, and triumphs of the different major-league teams that have resided in the state over the years.

Here, Philip Raisor recounts the hard knocks and hard-won triumphs of a basketball odyssey across 1950s America, from Indiana to Kansas to Louisiana, and from adolescence to adulthood. He also captures the period in his life in which he gradually stopped defining himself in terms of the game.

In 1911, when Bradley Hogg began his major-league pitching career for the National League's Boston Rustlers, baseball was a different game. Clyde Hogg details the life of baseball's everyman, including excerpts from newspapers throughout the country to bring to life the times in which Bradley Hogg played.

Explores the legacy of one of the most exceptional athletes ever - an entertainer extraordinaire, a daring showman and crowd-pleaser, a wizard with a baseball whose artistry and antics on the mound brought fans out in the thousands to ballparks across the country: Leroy 'Satchel' Paige, arguably one of the world's greatest pitchers.

The gradual transformation of the aristocratic sporting tradition of Britain into a popular one in America is the theme of this work. Dizikes examines the self-contradicting attitudes of 19th-century Americans in the process of creating a uniquely American sporting culture.

Captures a bygone era - the late 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s - through the reminiscences of award-winning ""New York Times"" reporter Gerald Eskenazi. This first-person recollection shows radio's broad impact on his generation and explains how and why it became such a major factor in shaping America and Americans.

Why should a particular game, played with a round ball by twenty-year-olds in short pants often hundreds of miles away, mean so much to me, since I seem to have so little to gain or lose by its outcome?"" The author seeks the answer to this question by delving into the particulars of his own experience.

An in-depth analysis that examines the infancy of major-league baseball in St. Louis during the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

Rather than as a Falstaffian figure of limited intellect, Edmund Wehrle reveals Babe Ruth as an ambitious, independent operator, one not afraid to challenge baseball's draconian labour system. This new perspective, approaching Ruth more seriously and placing his life in fuller context, is long overdue.

Tells the tale of two teams: one the city's lovable losers, the other a formidable dynasty. This is a celebration of the many legendary stars and colourful characters who wore St Louis uniforms and the writers who told their stories.