Here's the Pitch: The Amazing, True, New, and Improved Story of Baseball and Advertising

by Roberta J. Newman

Book Overview

2020 SABR Baseball Research Award

In 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 heard, fans enter Minute Maid Park, or vote...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803278470
• ISBN13: 9780803278479
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.3" x 9.3"