Baseball epic : famous and forgotten lives of the dead ball era
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Published
Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2019.
Status
Central - Adult Nonfiction
796.357 NOVAK
1 available
796.357 NOVAK
1 available
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Published
Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2019.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
227 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
"From Paris Review and New Yorker cartoonist Jason Novak, a history of the scrappy beginnings of baseball, told in 101 one-sentence biographies. I like to think of the book as a visual essay that highlights a little-talked about era of baseball, and specifically the men (and some women) who played then. For the major leagues, the Negro leagues, and the Women's League. Mostly it's just little bios with a kernel of the uncanny, often followed by a tragic end of many of the people who played pro ball before it was a professions. So there are details of their non-baseball lives as well, which really makes the unspoken case for baseball as a game, as it once was, and, when you think about baseball in the context of it being "America's pastime," this really opens up doors to think about this book as a profound essay on work, class, and race in America during that era"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Novak, J. (2019). Baseball epic: famous and forgotten lives of the dead ball era . Coffee House Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Novak, Jason, 1979-. 2019. Baseball Epic: Famous and Forgotten Lives of the Dead Ball Era. Coffee House Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Novak, Jason, 1979-. Baseball Epic: Famous and Forgotten Lives of the Dead Ball Era Coffee House Press, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Novak, Jason. Baseball Epic: Famous and Forgotten Lives of the Dead Ball Era Coffee House Press, 2019.
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