Displaying 1 of 1 2019 Format: DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials Title: Play ball! : the rise of baseball as America's pastime. Publisher, Date: Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2019] ©2019 Description: 4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 191 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm). digital optical video file DVD video Region 1 Summary: Change the way you think about baseball as a guide from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum covers the fascinating evolution of America's national pastime. Series: The great courses. History. American history Great courses (DVD). Modern history. Subjects: Baseball -- Social aspects -- United States. Baseball -- History. National characteristics, American. Genre: Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Lectures. Instructional films. Educational films. Sports films. Nonfiction films. Other Author: Markusen, Bruce, lecturer. Teaching Company, production company. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, sponsoring body. Other Title: Rise of baseball as America's pastime Notes: "National Baseball Hall of Fame"--Container. "Course no. 8629." Contains 24 lectures; each lecture is approximately 30 minutes. Closed captioned for the hearing impaired. Lecturer: Bruce Markusen, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. DVD. Contents: Ground rules: baseball before Babe Ruth -- Early bat and ball games -- The era of amateur baseball clubs -- The dawn of professional baseball -- Baseball's many leagues and associations -- How baseball created the World Series. Baseball grows by hitting the road -- Sacred ground: baseball's early ballparks -- The development of baseball's rules -- The evolution of protective equipment -- The role of women in baseball's early days -- Black baseball before the Negro leagues. Prejudice and diversity in early baseball -- Baseball grows through the press -- Baseball becomes a game of numbers -- Baseball: a game for the fans -- Baseball and our common culture -- The business behind the national pastime. Players, owners, and the reserve clause -- American politics and early baseball -- Baseball's rituals and traditions -- The impact of war on baseball -- Scandals and deception on the diamond -- How changing baseballs changed the game. ISBN: 9781629977409 1629977403 Publisher Number: ID8629A-01 PD8629A PB8629A Other Number: 1111106981 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 883505 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: GREAT DVD 796.357 Play bal Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
