American Game : Baseball and Ethnicity

The 9 essays in this collection present an ethnic & racial profile of Amer. baseball (BB). Shows how the gradual involvement by various ethnic & racial groups reflects the changing nature of BB over the course of the 20th cent. Contents: The Many Fathers of BB: Anglo-Amer. & the Early Game; German Amer. in Major League BB: Sport & Acculturation; 'Slide, Kelly, Slide¿: The Irish in Amer. BB; Unreconciled Strivings: BB in Jim Crow Amer.; Before Joe D: Early Italian Amer. in the Major Leagues; From Pike to Green with Greenberg in Between: Jewish Amer. & the National Pastime; Diamonds Out of the Coal Mines: Slavic Amer. in BB; Latin Quarter in the Major Leagues: Adjustment & Achieve; & BB & Racism¿s Traveling Eye: The Asian Pacific Amer. Exper.Baldassaro, Lawrence A. is the author of 'American Game : Baseball and Ethnicity', published 2008 under ISBN 9781422394212 and ISBN 1422394212.