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This book provides a general history of baseball that connects developments in the sport with key themes in American history. Following each chapter are important readings that illustrate and document these connections and discussion questions that can be used in the classroom.

This book provides a general history of baseball that connects developments in the sport with key themes in American history. Following each chapter are important readings that illustrate and document these connections and discussion questions that can be used in the classroom.

This succinct yet thorough history of baseball is set against the backdrop of American culture as a whole, chronicling the game's successes and financial failures, the continuing struggles between owners and players, the accommodations to radio and television, and more. 10 illustrations.

John Rossi offers not only an expert overview of baseball over the past 175 years, he shows how the game has reflected and contributed to changes in American society over time. The National Game chronicles baseball's popular successes and financial failures, its interleague wars and continuing struggles between owners and players, and its accommodations to radio and television without neglecting the colorful players and managers who have won t...

In 1964, thousands of Philadelphia baseball fans were caught up in the Phillies? unexpected run at the National League pennant. Nearly a decade of continuous defeat had earned them little more than the reputation for an unprecedented record of consecutive losses. But in that ?64 season the Phillies shocked the baseball world, taking over the National League in mid?July and holding on to first place for 73 consecutive days. And then, as the tea...

Bismarck once said that God looked after drunkards, children and the U.S. of A. Some say that baseball should be added to the list. It must have been divine intervention that led the sport through a series of transformative challenges from the end of World War II to the games first expansion in 1961. During this period baseball was forced to make a number of painful choices. From 1949 to 1954, attendance dropped more than 30 percent, as once l...