Inside Pitch : Life in Professional Baseball

by Gmelch, George

• ISBN13: 9781560989882
• ISBN10: 1560989882
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Smithsonian Inst Pr

Summary

Starting with the spark of ambition to play baseball professionally and ending with the necessity of reinventing life after baseball, anthropologist and former minor leaguer George Gmelch describes the lives of the men who work at America's national game. Book jacket.

Author Biography

George Gmelch is a former first baseman in the Detroit Tigers farm system and professor of anthropology at Union College, Schenectady.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	p. ix
Talent for the Game	p. 1
Breaking In	p. 27
Learning the Culture	p. 47
Moving Up the Ranks	p. 72
Making It	p. 92
The Mental Game	p. 115
Rituals of Uncertainty	p. 133
Baseball Wives	p. 144
Groupies	p. 162
When the Cheering Stops	p. 173
Reflections	p. 197
Appendix	p. 203
Notes	p. 205
Bibliography	p. 217
Index	p. 225
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