Inventing baseball heroes : Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, and the sporting press in America /
In Inventing Baseball Heroes, Amber Roessner examines "herocrafting" in sports journalism through an incisive analysis of the work surrounding two of baseball's most enduring personalities -- Detroit Tigers outfielder Ty Cobb and New York Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson. While other...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Baton Rouge :
LSU Press,
2014.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | In Inventing Baseball Heroes, Amber Roessner examines "herocrafting" in sports journalism through an incisive analysis of the work surrounding two of baseball's most enduring personalities -- Detroit Tigers outfielder Ty Cobb and New York Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson. While other scholars have demonstrated that the mythmakers of the Golden Age of Sports Writing (1920--1930) manufactured heroes out of baseball players for the mainstream media, Roessner probes further, with a penetrating look at how sportswriters compromised emerging professional standards of journalism as they crafted heroic tales that sought to teach American boys how to be successful players in the game of life. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (227 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807156124 (electronic bk.) 0807156124 (electronic bk.) |