Touching Base Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Era
- List Price: $22.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Edition: 2
- Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr
- Publish date: 06/01/1999
Description:
Baseball's emergence as the leading American sport during the Progressive Era gave rise to myths that have endured: baseball as an indigenous, rural, and democratic pastime that built character, acculturated newcomers, and promoted traditional values and a sense of community. Baseball ideology continues to portray the sport as an institution that helps bind the nation against the forces of modernization.
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