Baseball In America & America In Baseball

by Kyle, Donald G.

• ISBN13: 9781603440233
• ISBN10: 1603440232
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

Summary

When filmmakers release a movie about an historical event or figure, two questions arise: What did they get right? What did they get wrong? In this volume, experts examine the importance of not only understanding but also embracing the range of effects film has on our understanding of history and even the present. Chapters by a variety of authors address films such as Seabiscuit, Cinderella Man, The Grapes of Wrath, The Gangs of New York, Patton, Birth of a Nation, and Glory. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
"Our Players Are Mostly Farmers": Baseball in Rural California, 1850 to 1890	p. 8
"Invisible Baseball": Japanese Americans and Their Game in the 1930s	p. 32
Chasing Shadows: The Baltimore Black Sox and the Perils of History	p. 52
The Profits of Major League Baseball, 1900 to 1956	p. 88
Mapping an Empire of Baseball: American Visions of National Pastimes and Global Influence, 1919 to 1941	p. 143
"Matters Involving Honor": Region, Race, and Rank in the Violent Life of Tyrus Raymond Cobb	p. 189
About the Contributors	p. 223
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