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The golden game : the story of California baseball / Kevin Nelson ; foreword by Hank Greenwald

Catalog Data

Author:
Nelson, Kevin 1953-  Search this
Physical description:
xx, 379 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
California
Date:
2004
C2004
Contents:
The seed is planted -- Stagecoach baseball -- Enter the professionals -- How Casey advanced to the bat -- Train ride south -- From Robinson to Lange to Chance -- A brand new ballgame -- A ballpark blooms in San Francisco -- The Los Angeles mix, winter 1908 -- Schoolboys -- Playgrounds -- A left-hander for the Oaks -- There was a crooked man -- The pride of their community -- Babe Ruth in California -- An experiment in sound and light -- Barnstormers -- In the shadows of war -- Joe, Ted, Jackie -- War games -- Breakthrough -- Golden boys -- In a corner of the United States -- Casey, Billy, and the Yanks -- Brown Derby baseball -- They changed the game -- Los Angeles Dodgers vs. San Francisco Giants, April 1958 -- The last days of Ty Cobb -- The cowboy rides in -- The next generation -- 1969
Topic:
Baseball--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_744180