Making the Team: The Cultural Work of Baseball Fiction (Sport and Society) [Hardcover]

Timothy Morris (Author)

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Hardcover: 208 pages
Publisher: University of Illinois Press (January 1, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0252022947
ISBN-13: 978-0252022944
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,721,752 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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First Sentence:
If you want to understand America, goes the saying by Jacques Barzun, you had better learn baseball. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
adult baseball fiction, baseball novel, sports fiction, baseball stories, genre fiction, homosocial bonds, baseball story, sports literature

Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Celebrant, Keystone Kids, World Series, Bang the Drum Slowly, Jackie Robinson, New York, Big Game, United States, Henry Wiggen, The Southpaw, Roy Tucker, Mark Harris, Jack Kapp, Spike Russell, George Brayton, Standard English, The Strike-Out King, Huckleberry Finn, John Barr, Ricky Falls, Dutch Schnell, Christy Mathewson, Jocko Klein, Mike Kutner, Schoolboy Johnson

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The Kid from Tomkinsville (Odyssey) by John R. Tunis on 7 pages
Keystone Kids (Odyssey Classic) by John R. Tunis on 6 pages
Sometimes You See It Coming : A Novel by Kevin Baker on 5 pages
Man on Spikes (Writing Baseball) by Mr. Eliot Asinof on 5 pages
Schoolboy Johnson by John R. Tunis on 4 pages

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Critical Readings: Sport, Culture and the Media (Issues in Cultural and Media Studies) by David Rowe on page 80
Golf and the American Country Club (Sport and Society) by Richard J. Moss in Back Matter
The Nazi Olympics: Sport, Politics, and Appeasement in the 1930s by Arnd Kruger in Back Matter
Global Games (Sport and Society) by Maarten Van Bottenburg in Back Matter
Harry Hooper: AN AMERICAN BASEBALL LIFE (Sport and Society) by Paul J. Zingg in Back Matter

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