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How Baseball Explains America
Hal Bodley
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Description for How Baseball Explains America
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 440.
Examining the connection between baseball and our society as a whole, How Baseball Explains America is a fascinating, one-of-a-kind journey through America's pastime. Longtime USA TODAY baseball editor and columnist Hal Bodley explores just how essential baseball is to understanding the American experience. He takes readers into the Oval Office with George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton as the former presidents share their thoughts on the game, he looks at the changes that America's Greatest Generation ushered in, as well as examining baseball's struggle with performance enhancing drugs alongside America's war on drugs.
An unabashedly celebratory explanation of America's love ... Read more
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Publisher
Triumph Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
439 g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781600789380
SKU
V9781600789380
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-50
About Hal Bodley
Hal Bodley is a columnist for MLB.com and has covered baseball since 1958. He is a former columnist for USA Today and is the founder and former president of the Associated Press Editors Association and has served as a broadcast analyst for CBS, CNN, and NBC. He has won 30 regional and national writing awards and was elected to the ... Read more
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