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The Lineup - Ten Books That Changed Baseball

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Focusing on the ten most influential baseball books of all time, this volume explores how these landmark works changed the game itself and made waves in American society at large. Satchel Paige's Pitchin' Man informed the dialog surrounding integration. Ring Lardner's You Know Me Al changed the way Americans viewed their baseball heroes and influenced the work of Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Bill James's Baseball Abstract transformed the way managers--including those in fields other than baseball--analyzed numbers. Pete Rose's My Story and My Prison Without Bars exposed and deepened a cultural divide that paved the way for Donald Trump.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

¿1.¿America's National Game by A.G. Spalding, 1911

¿2.¿You Know Me Al: A Busher's Letters by Ring Lardner, 1916

¿3.¿Pitchin' Man: Satchel Paige's Own Story by Satchel Paige, 1948

¿4.¿The Natural by Bernard Malamud, 1952

¿5.¿Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues by Jim Bouton, 1970

¿6.¿The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn, 1972

¿7.¿The Bill James Baseball Abstract by Bill James, 1982

¿8.¿Rotisserie League Baseball by Glen Waggoner, 1984

¿9.¿Pete Rose: My Story by Pete Rose and Roger Kahn, 1989, and My Prison Without Bars by Pete Rose with Rick Hill, 2004

10.¿Other Influential Books

Chapter Notes

Bibliographic Essay

Index


About the author

Paul Aron is an editor and writer for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.

Product details

Authors Paul Aron, Aron Paul
Publisher Ingram Publishers Services
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation from age 18
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 20.07.2022
 
EAN 9781476688305
ISBN 978-1-4766-8830-5
No. of pages 237
Dimensions 152 mm x 229 mm x 12 mm
Weight 318 g
Illustrations Raster,schwarz-weiss
Subjects Guides > Sport > Ball sport

Baseball, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, REFERENCE / Bibliographies & Indexes, SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History, history of sport, Literary studies: general, Literature: history and criticism, Literary companions, book reviews & guides

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