Past Time: Baseball As History

I love how this books ties society and culture in the U.S and how baseball reflects it. Recommend

This book is written by a history professor. But it is not dry or boring--not by a long shot. Jules Tygiel writes with lucid and energetic prose. He looks at how baseball and the country grew up together, from the 1850's to the year 2000, when the book was published. This is a very unique take on the National Pastime. It is a highly intelligent but also highly accessible book that should prove to be highly enjoyable to those who have an interest in baseball history.

Great facts and stories of early baseball.

This is an interesting look at history through the changes surrounding America's favorite pastime. Good gift for a baseball history fan.

I enjoyed this book a lot and have now used it in two book clubs. As Jules notes in his introduction, this is more a social history than baseball as such, which means that I learned a lot about what was going on in the larger society through the lens of baseball.

Thoroughly enjoyable for the baseball fan or social historian. More about society than baseball as a game, uses "America's pastime" as a way to explore aspects of America not often treated and certainly not treated from this perspective.

Arrived as promised

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