Baseball and the American Dream

Baseball and the American Dream
Author: Robert Elias
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317325176

A fascinating look at how America's favorite sport has both reflected and shaped social, economic, and

Fantasy Life

Fantasy Life
Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Baseball
ISBN:

The American Dream and the National Game

The American Dream and the National Game
Author: Leverett T. Smith (Jr.)
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2004
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780879728670

This engaging study examines sports as both a symbol of American culture and a formative force that shapes American values. Leverett T. Smith Jr. uses "high" culture, in the form of literature and criticism, to analyze the popular culture of baseball and professional football. He explores the history of baseball through three important events: the fixing of the 1919 World Series, the appointment of Judge Landis as commissioner of baseball with dictatorial powers, and the emergence of Babe Ruth as the "new" kind of ball player. He also looks at literary works dealing with leisure and sports, including those of Thoreau, Twain, Frost, Lardner, and Hemingway. Finally he documents the emergence of professional football as the national game through the history and writings of former Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi, who emerges as both a critic of the business-oriented society and a canny businessman and manager of men himself. First paperback edition

Chasing the American Dream

Chasing the American Dream
Author: Mark Robert Rank PhD
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2014-03-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0199703302

The United States has been epitomized as a land of opportunity, where hard work and skill can bring personal success and economic well-being. The American Dream has captured the imagination of people from all walks of life, and to many, it represents the heart and soul of the country. But there is another, darker side to the bargain that America strikes with its people -- it is the price we pay for our individual pursuit of the American Dream. That price can be found in the economic hardship present in the lives of millions of Americans. In Chasing the American Dream, leading social scientists Mark Robert Rank, Thomas A. Hirschl, and Kirk A. Foster provide a new and innovative look into a curious dynamic -- the tension between the promise of economic opportunities and rewards and the amount of turmoil that Americans encounter in their quest for those rewards. The authors explore questions such as: -What percentage of Americans achieve affluence, and how much income mobility do we actually have? -Are most Americans able to own a home, and at what age? -How is it that nearly 80 percent of us will experience significant economic insecurity at some point between ages 25 and 60? -How can access to the American Dream be increased? Combining personal interviews with dozens of Americans and a longitudinal study covering 40 years of income data, the authors tell the story of the American Dream and reveal a number of surprises. The risk of economic vulnerability has increased substantially over the past four decades, and the American Dream is becoming harder to reach and harder to keep. Yet for most Americans, the Dream lies not in wealth, but in economic security, pursuing one's passions, and looking toward the future. Chasing the American Dream provides us with a new understanding into the dynamics that shape our fortunes and a deeper insight into the importance of the American Dream for the future of the country.

Sugarball

Sugarball
Author: Alan M. Klein
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1993-02-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780300052565

Describes how Dominican baseball fosters national pride and competition with the United States while at the same time promoting acceptance of the North American presence in the country

The Duke of Havana

The Duke of Havana
Author: Steve Fainaru
Publisher: Villard
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2001-06-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0375506691

In 1998, a mysterious right-handed pitcher emerged from the ashes of the Cold War and helped lead the New York Yankees to a World Championship. His origins and even his age were uncertain. His name was Orlando El Duque Hernandez. He was a fallen hero of Fidel Castro's socialist revolution. The chronicle of El Duque's triumph is at once a window into the slow death of Cuban socialism and one of the most remarkable sports stories of all time. Once hailed as a paragon of Castro's revolution, the finest pitcher in modern Cuban history was banned from baseball for life for allegedly plotting to defect. Instead of accepting his punishment, he fearlessly fought back, defying the Communist party authorities, vowing to pitch again, and ultimately fleeing his country in the bowels of a thirty-foot fishing boat. Here, for the first time and in astonishing detail, the secrets behind El Duque's persecution and escape are revealed. Moving from the crumbling streets of post Cold War Havana to the polarized world of exile Miami, from the deadly Florida Straits to the hallowed grounds of Yankee Stadium, it is a story of cloak-and-dagger adventure, audacious secret plots, the pull of big money, and the historic collision of ideologies. Present throughout are the larger-than-life characters who converged at this bizarre intersection of baseball and politics: El Duque himself, Fidel Castro, the Miami sports agent Joe Cubas, the late John Cardinal O'Connor along with scouts, smugglers, and the Cuban ballplayers who gave up their lives as tools of socialism to test the free market and chase their major-league dreams. Reported in the United States and Cuba by two award-winning journalists who became part of the story they were covering, The Duke of Havana is a riveting saga of sports, politics, liberation, and greed.

Ballpark

Ballpark
Author: Peter Richmond
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1995-03
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0684800489

In this lively chronicle of the creation of the Baltimore Orioles' new stadium, Richmond interweaves baseball history and hardball politics, architecture and the structure ot sports in the '90s to tell a tale as filled with tussles, turmoil, and triumphs as baseball itself.

One-armed Wonder

One-armed Wonder
Author: William C. Kashatus
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 161
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780786400942

A biography of the baseball player who had only one arm, from his childhood in the coal district of northeastern Pennsylvania to his one year with the American League's St. Louis Browns

Baseball and the American Dream

Baseball and the American Dream
Author: Robert Elias
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317325184

A fascinating look at how America's favorite sport has both reflected and shaped social, economic, and