The First World Series and the Baseball Fanatics of 1903 - Softcover

Abrams, Roger I.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555536441 ISBN 13: 9781555536442

Verlag: Northeastern University Press, 2005

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Book by Abrams Roger I

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"Puts the play-by-play into the social context of the times."

"A fascinating portrait of an era when baseball fever first gripped the U.S. and the World Series became an American obsession . . . Highly recommended." --Choice

"Puts the play-by-play into the social context of the times."--Boston Globe

"Supplements crisp on-the-field accounts with a portrait of the fans . . . [Abrams's] anecdotes . . . help make the book good reading."--Wall Street Journal

"[Abrams] brings out the attitudes of the time, such as Yankee senator Henry Cabot Lodge's anti-immigrant racism, and looks at the rise of the Irish in Boston."--Boston Herald

Reseña del editor:

Recapturing the drama and color of this historic sporting event, Roger I. Abrams shows how the first world series (Boston Americans vs. Pittsburgh Pirates) provided a unique lens to view American life and culture at the dawn of the twentieth century.

It is a fascinating story brimming with colorful, larger-than-life characters: legendary players Honus Wagner, Cy Young, Jimmy Collins, Fred Clarke, Big Bill Dineen, and Deacon Phillippe on the field; and Mike "Nuf Ced" McGreevey, "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, and the boisterous Boston Royal Rooters, cheering, chanting, and singing in the grandstands. This is also the story of how the post-season play gave disparate classes in society--Brahmins, industrialists, Irish politicians, Jewish immigrants--the rare opportunity to join in common support of their local teams and heroes.

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• Verlag: Northeastern University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1555536441
• ISBN 13: 9781555536442
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208