Baseball
A HIstory of America's Game
$57.99
- Paperback
328 pages
- Release Date
7 April 2025
Summary
Analytics, technology, and the most ambitious rewrite of the rulebook in fifty years have reshaped baseball. Benjamin G. Rader’s account of the American pastime moves from diamonds scratched out of commons and corn fields to the multimedia theme parks doubling as today’s baseball stadiums. The fifth edition follows the long arc of the game’s history into the third decade of the twenty-first century, an era rich in innovation but even richer from revenue streams undreamt-of by the plutocrats o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780252088803 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0252088808 |
| Author: | Benjamin G. Rader |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
| Imprint: | University of Illinois Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 328 |
| Edition: | 5th |
| Release Date: | 7 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Sport and Society |
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Critics Review
“The best single-volume history of the sport. Tackles the business and organizational evolution of the professional game, while not losing sight of how it was played on the field.”–Washington Post Book World “Baseball reflects Rader’s firm grasp of the best and latest scholarship and his insightful understanding of American sport history.”–Sporting News
Benjamin G. Rader
Benjamin G. Rader is the James L. Sellers Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and the coauthor of American Sports: From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Televised Sports, Seventh Edition.
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