Baseball as America : Seeing Ourselves Through Our National Game
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ISBN: 0792264649 / Publisher: National Geographic, March 2002
The official companion to the National Baseball Hall of Fame's four-year travelling exhibition pays tribute to America's favorite national pastime by featuring over thirty essays by writers, players, scholars, and fans, revealing how baseball has had a profound impact on the evolution of American culture.
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Baseball As America examines how the American landscape, our language, literature, entertainment, food, and summertime living all bear the mark of a 19th-century game that has become intertwined with our nation's values and aspirations. Baseball As America is the official companion volume to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum's unprecedented national traveling exhibition. Features more than 200 original and archival photographs that bring the game to life on its pages. Perfect for every baseball fan, indeed every American, Baseball As America is a comprehensive panorama of the game America has grown up with.
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