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Play Ball! The Story of Little League Baseball
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Overview
On any given spring evening, 360,000 children around the world can be found on the dusty mounds and grassy fields of a Little League field. With more than four million people playing or volunteering in Little League games every year, Little League is the institutional rite of passage into the quintessential American pastime.
Play Ball! charts Little League's history from the earliest days and shows how, in many respects, its history parallels America's history: isolation in the beginning; rapid expansion; a civil war of sorts, followed by reconstruction; struggles over civil rights and gender equity; and foreign entanglements. A microcosm of American society, Little League reflects, and is affected by, cultural, political and historical trends.
The authors were given full access to the Little League Baseball archives and have created a comprehensive history. Play Ball! contains appendixes including winners of all Little League Baseball and Softball World Series, a year-by-year history of Little League, countries in Little League, and lists of some of the famous people who played the game as children, including Kevin Costner, Mark McGwire, and George W. Bush. Includes new chapter on John Grisham's movie, "Mickey," the Danny Almonte scandal, Tee Ball on the South Lawn, Pitch Counts and Arm Injuries, Child Protection Act, ESPN and the new World of Little League Museum.
Play Ball! will interest parents, former players and coaches, fans of Little League Baseball, general baseball enthusiasts, and anyone who has ever picked up a ball and bat.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780998681191 |
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Publisher: | Reading Pandas, Inc. |
Publication date: | 06/26/2018 |
Series: | 2nd |
Edition description: | 2nd ed. |
Pages: | 296 |
Product dimensions: | 8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.62(d) |
About the Author
Robin Van Auken is an author, researcher and educator specializing in cultural heritage projects. She writes non-fiction, focusing on regional histories, as well as contemporary fiction, suspense thriller and romance. Get a FREE BOOK, on her author's website, www.RobinVanAuken.com She lives in the highlands of Pennsylvania. She and her husband, Lance, enjoy traveling to the United Kingdom and Europe, and spend much of their time abroad in ruins, castles, cathedrals and museums. She particularly enjoys crypts with mummies, musty libraries and authentic pubs. In the United States, they bounce along the East Coast, traveling from New England to Florida to visit family and friends. Robin's books include elements of her passions: traveling, boating, scuba diving, hiking, history and archaeology. The characters in her novels have a connection with idyllic Eaton, a fictitious town in Pennsylvania, although many of her books also feature exciting and exotic cities the heroines (and their lovers) visit during the course of their romantic journey.
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments ix
Dave Barry Recalls xiii
Introduction xv
1 A Man’s Game, a Boy’s Game 1
2 From a Lilac Bush 15
3 Carl Stotz Keeps His Promise 33
4 The World Discovers Little League 49
5 Little League’s Civil War 67
6 Reconstruction 87
7 Little League Crosses the River 105
8 Changing Times 127
9 Girls, Girls, Girls 143
10 Dynasty from the East 161
11 Into the Twenty-First Century 185
12 Play Ball 203
Appendixes: A Capsule History of Little League, and other interesting facts and figures 225
Index 249