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Name: The American Game: Baseball and Ethnicity (Writing Baseball)
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Author: Editor-Professor Lawrence Baldassaro; Editor-Richard Johnson; Foreword-Allan H Selig
ISBN: 9780809324453

by Baldassaro, Lawrence, Professor (Editor), And Johnson, Dick (Editor), And Johnson, Richard, Dr. (Editor)

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These nine essays selected by Lawrence Baldassaro and Richard A. Johnson present for the first time in a single volume an ethnic and racial profile of American baseball. These essayists show how the gradual involvement by various ethnic and racial groups reflects the changing nature of baseballand of American society as a wholeover the course of the twentieth century.Although the sport could not truly be called representative of America until after Jackie Robinson broke the color line in 1947, fascination with the ethnic backgrounds of the players began more than a century ago when athletes of German and Irish descent entered the major leagues in large numbers. In the 1920s, commentators noted the influx of ballplayers of Italian and Slavic origins and wondered why there were not more Jewish players in the big leagues. The era following World War II, however, saw the most dramatic ethnographic shift with the belated entry of African American ballplayers. The pattern of ethnic succession continues as players of Hispanic and Asian origin infuse fresh excitement and renewal into the major leagues."

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Ever since athletes of German and Irish descent entered the major leagues in large numbers more than a century ago, the ethnic background of baseball players has fascinated fans and the media.

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Title The American Game Baseball and Ethnicity (Writing Baseball)
Author Baldassaro, Lawrence, Professor (Editor), And Johnson, Dick (Editor), And Johnson, Richard, Dr. (Editor)
Binding unknown
Pages 229 x 152mm 224 pages Referen
Publisher Southern Illinois University
Date May 30, 2002
ISBN 9780809324453

About the author

Lawrence Baldassaro, a professor of Italian and comparative literature and director of the University Honors Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is the editor of The Ted Williams Reader.Richard A. Johnson has served as the curator of the Sports Museum of New England since 1982. His seven books include DiMaggio: An Illustrated Life, The Twentieth-Century Baseball Chronicle, Red Sox Century, and Boston Braves."

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