{"product_id":"touching-base-9780252067754","title":"Touching Base","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines the myths and the realities, symbols, and rituals of \"America's favorite pastime.\" This book details the relationships among urban politics, communities, and baseball, exploring how debates over issues such as Sunday games, ballpark construction, and the promotion of the game were shaped by Progressive Era sensibilities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Riess asks and answers fundamentally important questions about urban America as well as baseball in the early twentieth century. . . . \u003ci\u003eTouching Base,\u003c\/i\u003e the most ambitious and exhaustive case study of urban professional baseball yet written, clearly demonstrates not only the vast potential for understanding American history through baseball, but also the value of utilizing sociological theory and municipal archives in researching baseball history.\"--Larry Gerlach, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Sports History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Well-received in many quarters in its original version, \u003ci\u003eTouching Base\u003c\/i\u003e provides a massive fund of information extremely valuable to any baseball scholar. The bibliography and the opening essay on the state of baseball history alone justify this revised version.\"--Richard C. Crepeau, author of \u003ci\u003eBaseball: America's Diamond Mine, 1919-1941\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTouching Base\u003c\/i\u003e not only tells the story of baseball in its formative period; it explains how the game fit into a much larger pattern of social and cultural development. The original edition of \u003ci\u003eTouching Base\u003c\/i\u003e was an important work of sport history, and the new revised edition adds even more to our knowledge of how and why baseball became our national pastime. This is fine history.\"—Elliott J. Gorn, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400469094743,"sku":"9780252067754","price":18.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252067754.jpg?v=1730470761","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/touching-base-9780252067754","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}