The Golden Game : The Story of California Baseball.
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- 9780803284258
- 796.35709794
- GV863.C2 -- .N457 2015eb
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. The Seed Is Planted -- 2. Stagecoach Baseball -- 3. Enter the Professionals -- 4. How Casey Advanced to the Bat -- 5. Train Ride South -- 6. From Robinson to Lange to Chance -- 7. A Brand-New Ballgame -- 8. A Ballpark Blooms in San Francisco -- 9. The Los Angeles Mix, Winter 1908 -- 10. Schoolboys -- 11. Playgrounds -- 12. A Left-Hander for the Oaks -- 13. There Was a Crooked Man -- 14. The Pride of Th eir Community -- 15. Babe Ruth in California -- 16. An Experiment in Sound and Light -- 17. Barnstormers -- 18. In the Shadows of War -- 19. Joe, Ted, Jackie -- 20. War Games -- 21. Breakthrough -- 22. Golden Boys -- 23. In a Corner of the United States -- 24. Casey, Billy, and the Yanks -- 25. Brown Derby Baseball -- 26. They Changed the Game -- 27. Los Angeles Dodgers vs. San Francisco Giants, April 1958 -- 28. The Last Days of Ty Cobb -- 29. The Cowboy Rides In -- 30. The Next Generation -- 31. 1969 -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Source Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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