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“roberta j newman”

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  • Here's the Pitch

    The Amazing, True, New, and Improved Story of Baseball and Advertising

    by Roberta J. Newman ...
    2020 SABR Baseball Research AwardIn the mid-nineteenth century, two industries arrived on the American scene. One was strictly a business, yet it helped create, define, and disseminate American culture. The other was ostensibly just a game, yet it soon became emblematic of what it meant to be American, aiding in the creation of a national identity. Today, whenever the AT&T call to the bullpen is ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Black Baseball, Black Business

    Race Enterprise and the Fate of the Segregated Dollar

    by Roberta J. Newman, Joel Nathan Rosen ...
    Roberta J. Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen have written an authoritative social history of the Negro Leagues. This book examines how the relationship between black baseball and black businesses functioned, particularly in urban areas with significant African American populations--Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Newark, New York, Philadelphia, and more. Inextricably bound together by ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Black Baseball, Black Business

    Race Enterprise and the Fate of the Segregated Dollar

    by Roberta J. Newman, Joel Nathan Rosen ...
    Winner of the 2014 Robert W. Peterson Award for Excellence in Negro League Research from the Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference, sponsored by Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball ResearchRoberta J. Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen have written an authoritative social history of the Negro Leagues. This book examines how the relationship between black baseball and black ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl

    Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America

    by Alice Nakhimovsky, Roberta Newman ...
    "Explore[s] the Jewish past via letters that reflect connections and collisions between old and new worlds." —Jewish Book CouncilAt the turn of the 20th century, Jewish families scattered by migration could stay in touch only through letters. Jews in the Russian Empire and America wrote business letters, romantic letters, and emotionally intense family letters. But for many Jews who were ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Locker Room of Her Own

    Celebrity, Sexuality, and Female Athletes

    by Jack Lule ...
    Female athletes are too often perceived as interlopers in the historically male-dominated world of sports. Obstacles specific to women are of particular focus in A Locker Room of Her Own. Race, sexual orientation, and the similar qualities ancillary to gender bear special exploration in how they impact an athlete's story. Central to this volume is the contention that women in their role as ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • A Locker Room of Her Own

    Celebrity, Sexuality, and Female Athletes

    by Jack Lule ...
    Timothy E. Wise presents the first book to focus specifically on the musical content of yodeling in our culture. He shows that yodeling serves an aesthetic function in musical texts. A series of chronological chapters analyzes this musical tradition from its earliest appearances in Europe to its incorporation into a range of American genres and beyond. Wise posits the reasons for yodeling’s ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • A Locker Room of Her Own

    Celebrity, Sexuality, and Female Athletes

    by Jack Lule ...
    Female athletes are too often perceived as interlopers in the historically male-dominated world of sports. Obstacles specific to women are of particular focus in A Locker Room of Her Own. Race, sexual orientation, and the similar qualities ancillary to gender bear special exploration in how they impact an athlete's story. Central to this volume is the contention that women in their role as ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Baseball

    Edited by Leonard Cassuto, Stephen Partridge ...
    Baseball is much more than a game. As the American national pastime, it has reflected the political and cultural concerns of US society for over 200 years, and generates passions and loyalties unique in American society. This Companion examines baseball in culture, baseball as culture, and the game's global identity. Contributors contrast baseball's massive, big-business present with its ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • A Spectacular Leap

    Black Women Athletes in Twentieth-Century America

    by Jennifer H. Lansbury ...
    When high jumper Alice Coachman won the high jump title at the 1941 national championships with “a spectacular leap,” African American women had been participating in competitive sport for close to twenty-five years. Yet it would be another twenty years before they would experience something akin to the national fame and recognition that African American men had known since the 1930s, the days of ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Race and Sport

    The Struggle for Equality on and off the Field

    Edited by Charles K. Ross ...
    Even before the desegregation of the military and public education and before blacks had full legal access to voting, racial barriers had begun to fall in American sports. This collection of essays shows that for many African Americans it was the world of athletics that first opened an avenue to equality and democratic involvement.Race and Sport showcases African Americans as key figures making ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Baseball and the American Dream

    Race, Class, Gender, and the National Pastime

    by Robert Elias ...
    A fascinating look at how America's favorite sport has both reflected and shaped social, economic, and ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • The Forgotten League: A History of Negro League Baseball

    by Frank Foster ...
    Rube Foster, Cool Papa Bell, Monte Irvin, Buck Leonard…they are some of the greatest players to ever play the game; so why have so few people heard of them? Because they never played in the MLB; they were the heroes of a baseball league often forgotten: The Negro League.This book traces the history of the league from the early days of Professional Black Baseball and the formation of leagues to ... Read more

    $8.44 CAD