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Baseball, First Dubbed The National Pastime In Print In 1856, Is The Country's Most Tradition-bound Sport. Despite Remaining Popular And Profitable Into The Twenty-first Century, The Game Is Losing Young Fans, Among African Americans And Women As Well As White Men. Furthermore, Baseball's Greatest Charm--a Clockless Suspension Of Time--is Also Its Greatest Liability In A Culture Of Digital Distraction. These Paradoxes Are Explored By The Historian And Passionate Baseball Fan Susan Jacoby In A Book That Is Both A Love Letter To The Game And A Tough-minded Analysis Of The Current Challenges To Its Special Position--in Reality And Myth--in American Culture. The Concise But Wide-ranging Analysis Moves From The Civil War--when Many Soldiers Played Ball In Northern And Southern Prisoner-of-war Camps--to Interviews With Top Baseball Officials And Young Men Who Prefer Playing Online Fantasy Baseball To Attending Real Games. Revisiting Her Youthful Days Of Watching Televised Baseball In Her Grandfather's Bar, The Author Links Her Love Of The Game With The Informal Education She Received In Everything From Baseball's History Of Racial Segregation To Pitch Location. Jacoby Argues Forcefully T

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Author

Susan Jacoby

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300235401

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sports, Anthropology