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All the Babe's men : baseball's greatest home run seasons and how they changed America / Eldon L. Ham.
- Title
- All the Babe's men : baseball's greatest home run seasons and how they changed America / Eldon L. Ham.
- Author
- Ham, Eldon L., 1952-
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, c2013.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | GV868.4 .H36 2013 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiv, 330 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Looks at the evolution of the home run's popularity in baseball through an analysis of historic long-ball seasons, the sport's superstars, and the steroid era.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-314) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The home run mystique -- Our national metaphor -- Baseball's Ante Diem -- Ruth: the quantum leap -- The missiles of Mudville -- The home run that changed America -- The immaculate deception -- The game of infamy -- Manipulating history -- The missiles of Camelot -- The rise and fall of Roger Maris -- Stealing history -- The dead ball malaise -- Sosa-McGwire: the summer that roared -- New York, New York -- The scarlet number -- Men, Mudville, and DiMaggio.
- ISBN
- 9781597979382 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1597979384 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781597979399 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2012047587
- OCLC
- 795759554
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library