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Informationen zum Autor Lawrence Baldassaro is a professor emeritus of Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the editor of Ted Williams: Reflections on a Splendid Life and The American Game: Baseball and Ethnicity. Dom DiMaggio, youngest brother of Joe and Vince DiMaggio, made his Major League debut on April 16, 1940, for the Boston Red Sox. He died in 2009 at the age of ninety-two. Klappentext Lawrence Baldassaro is a professor emeritus of Italian at the University of Wisconsin¿Milwaukee. He is the author of numerous articles on baseball! coeditor of The American Game: Baseball and Ethnicity! and editor of Ted Williams: Reflections on a Splendid Life. Dom DiMaggio (1917¿2009)! the younger brother of Joe and Vince DiMaggio! played for the Boston Red Sox for his entire ten-year career. Zusammenfassung Italian Americans have been among the most prominent and intriguing players in baseball. The first comprehensive study of the topic! Beyond DiMaggio is also a social history of baseball! tracing the evolution of American perceptions toward those of Italian descent as it chronicles the baseball exploits that influenced those perceptions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Dom DiMaggio Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: At Home in America Part 1: The Pioneers1. Ed Abbaticchio: Forgotten Pioneer 2. The Boys from San Francisco 3. Where Are the Italians? 4. The Tony Lazzeri Era Part 2: Arrival5. The Turning Point: 1930-1935 6. Viva Italia! 1936-1939 7. The First MVPs: Lombardi, Camilli, and Cavarretta 8. To War and Back Part 3: Postwar Boom9. Postwar New York: The Golden Age 10. The DiMaggio Brothers: Realizing the American Dream 11. Italian Yankees: Paesans in Pinstripes 12. Interborough Warfare: Dodgers versus Giants Part 4: Transitional Italians13. The Last "Italians" 14. The 1970s and Beyond 15. From Labor to Management 16. Executive Suite Notes BibliographySource Acknowledgments Index ...
