Touching Base : Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Era
, by RIESS STEVEN A.
- ISBN: 9780252024672 | 0252024672
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 6/1/1999
Baseball's emergence as the leading American sport during the Progressive Era gave rise to myths that have endured: baseball as an indigenous, rural, and democratic pastime that built character, acculturated newcomers, and promoted traditional values and a sense of community. Baseball ideology continues to portray the sport as an institution that helps bind the nation against the forces of modernization.
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