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Few writers learn about baseball's role in American life than Jules Tygiel. In Baseball's Great Test: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy, Tygiel penned a classic work, a landmark booklet that towers above most authoring the activity. Now he amounts across the last century and a half in an intriguing look at baseball as history, and history as reflected in baseball. In Recent Time, Tygiel gives us a seats behind home dish, where we get the ongoing interplay of baseball and American culture. We get started in New York in the 1850s, where pre-Civil Conflict nationalism designed the emergence of your "national pastime." We witness the true beginning of modern baseball with the introduction of its elaborate figures - the brainchild of English-born reformer, Henry Chadwick. Chadwick, Tygiel writes, created the sport's "historical substance" and even imparted a moral dimensions to the game with his ideas of "problems" and "unearned" runs. Tygiel offers evenly insightful looks at the role of rags-to-riches player-owners in the formation of the upstart American Category and he describes the complex battle to establish African-American baseball in a segregated world. He also examines baseball through the Great Despair (when Branch Rickey and Larry MacPhail saved the game by perfecting the farm system, night baseball, and radio broadcasts), the ironies of Bobby Thomson's immortal "shot been told 'round the planet," the rapid relocation of franchises in the 1950s and 1960s, and the emergence of rotisserie leagues and fantasy camps in the 1980s. In Recent Time, Jules Tygiel provides baseball history with a notable difference. Instead of a pitch-by-pitch consideration of great game titles, in this groundbreaking audiobook, the field is American background and baseball itself is the superstar.
