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The Farmers' Game : Baseball in Rural America /
The author examines the history and character of baseball through a series of essay-vignettes. He presents the sport as essentially rural, reflecting the nature of farm and small-town life. This book does not deny or devalue the lively stickball games played in the streets of Brooklyn, but highlight...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2013.
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