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  • Down on Mahans Creek

    A History of an Ozarks Neighborhood

    by Benjamin G. Rader ...
    Series series Ozarks Studies
    In Down on Mahans Creek, Benjamin Rader provides a fascinating look at a neighborhood in the Missouri Ozarks from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. He explores the many ways in which Mahans Creek, though remote, was never completely isolated or self-sufficient. The residents were deeply affected by the Civil War, and the arrival of the railroad and the timber boom in the 1890s ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Baseball

    A HIstory of America's Game

    by Benjamin G. Rader ...
    Series series Sport and Society
    Analytics, technology, and the most ambitious rewrite of the rulebook in fifty years have reshaped baseball. Benjamin G. Rader’s account of the American pastime moves from diamonds scratched out of commons and corn fields to the multimedia theme parks doubling as today’s baseball stadiums. The fifth edition follows the long arc of the game’s history into the third decade of the twenty-first ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • When Grandpa Delivered Babies and Other Ozarks Vignettes

    by Benjamin G. Rader ...
    People in the Ozarks have long told humorous vignettes that make sense of triumph and tragedy, relay family and local history, and of course entertain. Benjamin G. Rader’s memoir offers a loving portrait of the Ozarks of his youth, where his grandfather midwifed babies and his great uncle Jerry Rader laughed so hard at one of his own stories that he choked to death on a pork chop. As he reveals ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Academic Mind and Reform

    The Influence of Richard T. Ely in American Life

    by Benjamin G. Rader ...
    For over two generations economist Richard T. Ely popularized a wide spectrum of significant liberal social principles and mirrored many of the dilemmas, frustrations, and successes of the academician as a reformer. He was the originator of many ideas that agitated American reform circles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and unlike most professors of his time, he frequently ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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    Baseball

    A History of America's Game

    by Benjamin G. Rader ...
    Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 40 min

    A succinct history of baseball, newly revised and updated. In this third edition of his lively history of America's game, widely recognized as the best of its kind, Benjamin G. Rader expands his scope, covering record crowds and record income, construction of new ballparks, a change in the strike zone, a surge in recruiting Japanese players, and an emerging cadre of explosive long-ball hitters. ... Read more

    $20.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • American Sports

    From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of the Internet

    by Pamela Grundy, Benjamin Rader ...
    American Sports, now in its ninth edition, is a comprehensive, analytical introduction to the history of American sports from the precolonial era to the present.Concise, thought-provoking chapters outline the complex relationships between sports and class, gender, race, religion, sexuality, and region in the United States, offering a definitive examination of how athletics have both shaped and ... Read more

    $106.99 USD

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  • Baseball

    A History of America's Favorite Game

    by George Vecsey ...
    Series Book 25 - Modern Library Chronicles
    “Football is force and fanatics, basketball is beauty and bounce. Baseball is everything: action, grace, the seasons of our lives. George Vecsey’s book proves it, without wasting a word.”—Lee Eisenberg, author of The NumberIn Baseball, one of the great bards of America’s Grand Old Game gives a rousing account of the sport, from its pre-Republic roots to the present day. George Vecsey casts a fresh ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Cooperstown Confidential

    Heroes, Rogues, and the Inside Story of the Baseball Hall of Fame

    by Zev Chafets ...
    If baseball is America's national religion, then the Hall of Fame is its High Church. Being named among its 286 inductees makes you the closest thing our country has to an undisputed hero - even a secular saint. But the men in the Hall of Fame are no angels. Among their number are gamblers, drunks, race-baiters, at least one murderer, and perhaps the greatest collection of bona fide characters ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • Indentured

    The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA

    by Joe Nocera, Ben Strauss ...
    “How can the NCAA blithely wreck careers without regard to due process or common fairness? How can it act so ruthlessly to enforce rules that are so petty? Why won’t anybody stand up to these outrageous violations of American values and American justice?”In the four years since Joe Nocera asked those questions in a controversial New York Times column, the National Collegiate Athletic Association ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Meaning Of Sports

    by Michael Mandelbaum ...
    In The Meaning of Sports, Michael Mandelbaum, a sports fan who is also one of the nation's preeminent foreign policy thinkers, examines America's century-long love affair with team sports. In keeping with his reputation for writing about big ideas in an illuminating and graceful way, he shows how sports respond to deep human needs; describes the ways in which baseball, football and basketball ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Sports in American Life

    A History

    by Richard O. Davies ...
    The third edition of author Richard O. Davies' highly praised narrative of American sports, Sports in American Life: A History, features extensive revisions and updates to its presentation of an interpretative history of the relationship of sports to the larger themes of U.S. history.Updated include a new section on concussions caused by contact sports and new biographies of John Wooden and Joe ... Read more

    $47.00 USD

  • Season of Saturdays

    A History of College Football in 14 Games

    by Michael Weinreb ...
    From an award-winning sports journalist and college football expert: “A beautifully written mix of memoir and reportage that tracks college ball through fourteen key games, giving depth and meaning to all” (Sports Illustrated), now with a new Afterword about the first ever College Football Playoff.Every Saturday in the fall, it happens: On college campuses, in bars, at gatherings of fervent alumni ... Read more

    $13.99 USD