Understanding Baseball: A Textbook

by Trey Strecker (Editor), Mitchell Nathanson, Steven P. Gietschier (Editor)

The study of baseball history and culture reveals the national game as a contested field where debates about sport, character, work and play, the country and the city, labor, race, and a host of other issues, circulate. Understanding baseball, then, calls for careful consideration of several different perspectives and what each contributes to the conversation.

220 pages, Paperback

First published January 31, 2015