How baseball explains America
by Bodley, Hal
Longtime USA TODAY baseball editor and columnist Hal Bodley explores just how essential baseball is to understanding the American experience. He takes readers into the Oval Office with George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton as the former presidents share their thoughts on the game; he looks at the changes that America's Greatest Generation ushered in, as well as examining baseball's struggle with performance enhancing drugs alongside America's war on drugs. An unabashedly celebratory explanation of …
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Longtime USA TODAY baseball editor and columnist Hal Bodley explores just how essential baseball is to understanding the American experience. He takes readers into the Oval Office with George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton as the former presidents share their thoughts on the game; he looks at the changes that America's Greatest Generation ushered in, as well as examining baseball's struggle with performance enhancing drugs alongside America's war on drugs. An unabashedly celebratory explanation of America's love affair with baseball and the men who make it possible, this work sheds light on topics such as the role Jackie Robinson's signing with the Dodgers played in the civil rights movement, how baseball's westward expansion mirrored the growth of our national economy, as well as labor strife, baseball families, the international explosion of the game, and even the myriad ways in which movies, music, and baseball are intrinsically tied.
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- Publication Date:2014
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- Publisher(s):Triumph Books
- Place of Publication:Chicago, Ill
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2014
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 243 pages : : illustrations ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781600789380, 1600789382
- oclc:ocn862098916
- LC Classification:GV863.A1
- Dewey Decimal:796.3570973
Table of Contents
The greatest decade -- Drugs on the street, drugs on the diamond -- Owning a team: how hard could it be? -- Bill Clinton and the strike of '94 -- A family game -- Baseball chatter -- George Steinbrenner's American dream -- Cox, La Russa, Torre -- end of an era -- The legacy of Jackie Robinson -- The dream is alive in Oakland -- A kid's game -- Mr. President -- Take me out to the ball game -- The American dream (Cuban edition) -- Change is good? -- The big job -- There used to be a ballpark.
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