Baseball as America

Baseball as America Seeing Ourselves Through Our National Game

Hardback (01 Mar 2002)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Baseball As America examines how the American landscape, our language, literature, entertainment, food, and summertime living all bear the mark of a 19th-century game that has become intertwined with our nation's values and aspirations. Baseball As America is the official companion volume to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum's unprecedented national traveling exhibition. Features more than 200 original and archival photographs that bring the game to life on its pages. Perfect for every baseball fan, indeed every American, Baseball As America is a comprehensive panorama of the game America has grown up with.

Book information

ISBN: 9780792264644
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Imprint: National Geographic
Pub date:
DEWEY: 796 3570973
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 1575g
Height: 276mm
Width: 229mm
Spine width: 26mm