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

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ADDITIONAL REVIEWS:

"[White] is poignant in his description of the decline of the pastoral setting, as a new generation of owners found profit in suburbia. This study represents the best of serious research into American baseball history."--Sol Gittleman, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

ENDORSEMENT:

"A book for anyone either thrilled by the state of baseball today. . . An ideal introduction to how the sport became what it is."--Dan Okrent

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