Under the March sun : the story of spring training / Charles Fountain.

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Fountain, Charles

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780199707317
0199707316
9780195372038
0195372034
1281987131
9781281987136
9786611987138
6611987134
0199743703
9780199743704

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Under the March sun.DDC classification:

796.357/64 22

LOC classification:

GV875.6 .F69 2009eb

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Contents:

Prologue: Under the March Sun; 1. Myths, Madcaps, and Misbehavior: Spring Training in the Nineteenth Century; 2. St. Petersburg's Mr. Baseball; 3. Spring Training Takes Root; 4. A Sportswriter Helps to End Separate but Hardly Equal; 5. Mr. O'Malley's Dodgertown; 6. The Bottom Line Crowds Out the Box Score; 7. Red Sox Nation Flies South; 8. "Let the Tourists Put in Their Two Cents"; 9. Changing the Dynamic: Lee County and the Twins; 10. Fields of Broken Dreams; 11. Breathing Braves Air; 12. The Chief Big Ho and Car Rentals: The Cactus League Comes of Age.

Summary: There is nothing in all of American sport quite like baseball's spring training. This annual six-week ritual, whose origins date back nearly a century and a half, fires the hearts and imaginations of fans who flock by the hundreds of thousands to places like Dodgertown to glimpse superstars and living legends in a relaxed moment and watch the drama of journeyman veterans and starry-eyed kids in search of that last spot on the bench. In Under the March Sun, Charles Fountain recounts for the first time the full and fascinating history of spring training and its growth from a shoestring-budget ro.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-281) and index.

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There is nothing in all of American sport quite like baseball's spring training. This annual six-week ritual, whose origins date back nearly a century and a half, fires the hearts and imaginations of fans who flock by the hundreds of thousands to places like Dodgertown to glimpse superstars and living legends in a relaxed moment and watch the drama of journeyman veterans and starry-eyed kids in search of that last spot on the bench. In Under the March Sun, Charles Fountain recounts for the first time the full and fascinating history of spring training and its growth from a shoestring-budget ro.

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