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Product Name :Baseball as America
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Full Description:
A celebration of America's romance with baseball, this is the official companion volume to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum's traveling exhibition. Featuring rare images and artifacts, plus more than 30 essays by writers, players, scholars, and fans�including John Grisham, Tom Brokaw, Dave Berry, Roger Kahn, Paul Simon, George Plimpton, and Penny Marshall, Baseball As America explores every rich facet of the national pastime, showing how the game has served as both a public reflection of and a catalyst for the evolution of American culture and society. The volume reveals how the American landscape, language, literature, entertainment, food, and summertime living all bear the mark of this 19th-century game that has become inextricably intertwined with our nation's values, aspirations, and character.
* 320 pages
* Softcover
* 11'' x 10''
* � 2002 |