Our Game: An American Baseball History

Author:   Professor of History Charles C Alexander (Ohio University) ,  Professor Grover Gardner
Publisher:   Blackstone Audiobooks
ISBN:  

9781455136018


Publication Date:   20 May 2012
Format:   Audio  Audio Format
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This entertaining history blends anecdote, incident, and analysis as it chronicles the story of our national pastime. Alexander covers the advent of the first professional baseball leagues, the game's surge in the early twentieth century, the Golden Twenties and the Gray Thirties, the breaking of the color line in the late forties, and the game's expansion to its current status as a premier team sport. He describes changing playing styles and outstanding teams and personalities but also demonstrates the many connections between baseball--as game, sport, and business--and the evolution of tastes, values, and institutions in the United States.

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Author:   Professor of History Charles C Alexander (Ohio University) ,  Professor Grover Gardner
Publisher:   Blackstone Audiobooks
Imprint:   Blackstone Audiobooks
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 15.50cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9781455136018


ISBN 10:   1455136018
Publication Date:   20 May 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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A commendable blend of people and events. -- Library Journal This coherent narrative history captures the glory, the excitement, and the occasional scandal that characterize the country's favorite sport. Entertaining and informative without flogging readers with a plethora of numbing statistics, Alexander's style should appeal to fans and students of baseball lore. A book that should readily lend itself as a tool in teaching modern American social and cultural history. -- School Library Journal Charles Alexander's history of baseball is authoritative and a pleasure to read. I tremendously enjoyed it. -- Lawrence Ritter, author of The Glory of Our Times


This coherent narrative history captures the glory, the excitement, and the occasional scandal that characterize the country's favorite sport. Entertaining and informative without flogging readers with a plethora of numbing statistics, Alexander's style should appeal to fans and students of baseball lore. A book that should readily lend itself as a tool in teaching modern American social and cultural history. -- School Library Journal Charles Alexander's history of baseball is authoritative and a pleasure to read. I tremendously enjoyed it. -- Lawrence Ritter, author of The Glory of Our Times A commendable blend of people and events. -- Library Journal


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Charles C. Alexander, formerly a distinguished professor of history at Ohio University, is the author of a number of books, including Our Game: An American Baseball History and the celebrated biographies Ty Cobb and John McGraw. Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over eight hundred titles to his credit. Named one of the Best Voices of the Century and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.

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