Creating the National Pastime:
Baseball Transforms Itself, 1903-1953
G. Edward White

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	List of Illustrations
	Preface
	Introduction	3
Ch. 1	The Ballparks	10
Ch. 2	The Enterprise, 1903-1923	47
Ch. 3	The Rise of the Commissioner: Gambling, the Black Sox, and the Creation of Baseball Heroes	84
Ch. 4	The Negro Leagues	127
Ch. 5	The Coming of Night Baseball	160
Ch. 6	Baseball Journalists	190
Ch. 7	Baseball on the Radio	206
Ch. 8	Ethnicity and Baseball: Hank Greenberg and Joe DiMaggio	245
Ch. 9	The Enterprise, 1923-1953	275
Ch. 10	The Decline of the National Pastime	316
	Notes	331
	Index	355

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