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Baseball as America: Seeing Ourselves Through Our National Game

About the Book

Baseball as America: Seeing Ourselves Through Our National Game

BASEBALL AS AMERICA examines how the American landscape, our language, literature, entertainment, food, and summertime living all bear the mark of a 19th-century game that has become intertwined with our nation's values and aspirations. BASEBALL AS AMERICA is the official companion volume to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum's unprecedented national traveling exhibition. Features more than 200 original and archival photographs that bring the game to life on its pages. Perfect for every baseball fan, indeed every American, BASEBALL AS AMERICA is a comprehensive panorama of the game America has grown up with.

Baseball as America: Seeing Ourselves Through Our National Game
by National Baseball Hall of Fame and National Geographic

  • Publication Date: March 1, 2002
  • Genres: History, Nonfiction, Sports
  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: National Geographic
  • ISBN-10: 0792264649
  • ISBN-13: 9780792264644