The Farmers' Game: Baseball in Rural America

by David Vaught

Book Overview

How rural America shapes America's favorite pastime.

Winner of the SABR Baseball Research Award of the Society for American Baseball Research

Anyone who has watched the film Field of Dreams can't help but be captivated by the lead character's vision. He gives his struggling farming community a magical place where the smell of roasted peanuts gently wafts over the crowded grandstand on a warm summer evening just as the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421407558
• ISBN13: 9781421407555
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"