Description for Past Time
Paperback. In Past Time, Jules Tygiel provides baseball history with a difference. Instead of a pitch-by-pitch account of great games, in this groundbreaking book, the field is American history and baseball itself is the star. Num Pages: 288 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
Few writers know more about baseball's role in American life than Jules Tygiel. In Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy, Tygiel penned a classic work, a landmark book that towers above most writing about the sport. Now he ranges across the last century and a half in an intriguing look at baseball as history, and history as reflected in baseball. In Past Time, Tygiel gives us a seat behind home plate, where we catch the ongoing interplay of baseball and American society. We begin in New York in the 1850s, where pre-Civil War nationalism shaped the emergence ... Read more
Few writers know more about baseball's role in American life than Jules Tygiel. In Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy, Tygiel penned a classic work, a landmark book that towers above most writing about the sport. Now he ranges across the last century and a half in an intriguing look at baseball as history, and history as reflected in baseball. In Past Time, Tygiel gives us a seat behind home plate, where we catch the ongoing interplay of baseball and American society. We begin in New York in the 1850s, where pre-Civil War nationalism shaped the emergence ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195146042
SKU
V9780195146042
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-36
About Jules Tygiel
Jules Tygiel is Professor of History at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and his Legacy.
Reviews for Past Time
Baseball's deep, continual integration into American society is the theme in this book. [It] consists of independent chapters that focus on how society shaped the game, and vice versa, during specific periods of American history.
The Columbus Dispatch
The book tracks baseball's journey as it adjusts to
and is modified byeconomic and social changes in America, the ... Read more
The Columbus Dispatch
The book tracks baseball's journey as it adjusts to
and is modified byeconomic and social changes in America, the ... Read more