Stealing games : how John McGraw transformed baseball with the 1911 New York Giants /
The 1911 New York Giants stole an astonishing 347 bases, a record that still stands more than a century later. That alone makes them special in baseball history, but as Maury Klein relates in Stealing Games, they also embodied a rapidly changing America on the cusp of a faster, more frenetic pace of...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Press,
2016.
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| Summary: | The 1911 New York Giants stole an astonishing 347 bases, a record that still stands more than a century later. That alone makes them special in baseball history, but as Maury Klein relates in Stealing Games, they also embodied a rapidly changing America on the cusp of a faster, more frenetic pace of life dominated by machines, technology and urban culture. |
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| Physical Description: | xxxii, 366 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781632860248 1632860244 |