Optional Readings: Bill Felber, ed., Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century (Phoenix: Society for American Baseball Research, 2013), 1-7, 10-12, 19-21, 36-38, 60-62, 65-67, 71-73, 77-78, 97-99, 116-118, 125-126, 149-151, 161-163, 222-224. [PCCommon] In-Class: Video: Signs of the Time PowerPoint: Day 3PP 19th Century – DAY FOUR GOLDEN AGE, 1900-1945 – BASEBALL’S Required Readings: Cambridge Companion to Baseball, Chapter 3 Rader, Chapter 7, Chapter 9, and Chapter 10 Optional Readings: 2 Homers, Clinching Second for Yanks, 4-2,” reprinted in Baseball: Heywood Broun, “Ruth Comes Into His Own With A Literary Anthology, ed. Nicholas Dawidoff (Library of America, 2002), 108-113. [PCCommon] Robert in Baseball: and the in Creamer, “Revolution Ruth Reaches New York” “Encore: Topping Amazing Season,” Babe: The Legend Comes to Life (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974), 217-227, 237-243. [PCCommon] Eric Rolfe Greenberg, excerpt from The Celebrant (repr.; Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993), 11-27. [PCCommon] W.C. Heinz, Rocky Road of reprinted in Baseball: A Literary Anthology, ed. Nicholas Dawidoff “The Pistol Pete,” (Library of America, 2002), 275-293. [PCCommon] in Baseball: The Golden Age (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971), Harold Seymour, “An Elected Czar,” [PCCommon] In-Class: Video: Ken Burns, Inning 4, A National Heirloom, 1920-1930 (excerpt) Baseball, PowerPoint: Day 4PP Golden Age – DAY FIVE - TIME OF TROUBLES, 1946-1968 BASEBALL’S Required Readings: Cambridge Companion to Baseball, Chapter 7 Rader, Chapter 12 and Chapter 13
Optional Readings: Bill Felber, ed., Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century (Phoenix: Society for American Baseball Research, 2013), 1-7, 10-12, 19-21, 36-38, 60-62, 65-67, 71-73, 77-78, 97-99, 116-118, 125-126, 149-151, 161-163, 222-224. [PCCommon] In-Class: Video: Signs of the Time PowerPoint: Day 3PP – 19th Century DAY FOUR – BASEBALL’S GOLDEN AGE, 1900-1945 Required Readings: Cambridge Companion to Baseball, Chapter 3 Rader, Chapter 7, Chapter 9, and Chapter 10 Optional Readings: Heywood Broun, “Ruth Comes Into His Own With 2 Homers, Clinching Second for Yanks, 4-2,” reprinted in Baseball: A Literary Anthology, ed. Nicholas Dawidoff (Library of America, 2002), 108-113. [PCCommon] Robert Creamer, “Revolution in Baseball: Ruth Reaches New York” and “Encore: Topping the Amazing Season,” in Babe: The Legend Comes to Life (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974), 217-227, 237-243. [PCCommon] Eric Rolfe Greenberg, excerpt from The Celebrant (repr.; Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993), 11-27. [PCCommon] W.C. Heinz, “The Rocky Road of Pistol Pete,” reprinted in Baseball: A Literary Anthology, ed. Nicholas Dawidoff (Library of America, 2002), 275-293. [PCCommon] Harold Seymour, “An Elected Czar,” in Baseball: The Golden Age (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971), [PCCommon] In-Class: Video: Ken Burns, Baseball, Inning 4, A National Heirloom, 1920-1930 (excerpt) PowerPoint: Day 4PP – Golden Age DAY FIVE - BASEBALL’S TIME OF TROUBLES, 1946-1968 Required Readings: Cambridge Companion to Baseball, Chapter 7 Rader, Chapter 12 and Chapter 13
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