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The emergence of baseball as the “national pastime” established the dynamics of spectator sports. Evolving in an urban landscape, the game attracted a dedicated fan base and enshrined the sports hero as a national celebrity. This book examines the development of baseball as 19th-century popular culture and as an institution that reinforced ideas about race, masculinity and American exceptionalism.

The Culture and Ethnicity of Nineteenth Century

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      Publisher: McFarland & Company
      Publication Date: 5/30/2017 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780786498901, 978-0786498901
      ISBN10: 0786498900

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      Book Synopsis
      The emergence of baseball as the “national pastime” established the dynamics of spectator sports. Evolving in an urban landscape, the game attracted a dedicated fan base and enshrined the sports hero as a national celebrity. This book examines the development of baseball as 19th-century popular culture and as an institution that reinforced ideas about race, masculinity and American exceptionalism.

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