Play Ball! The Story of Little League Baseball
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By Lance and Robin Van Auken
The remarkable story of Little League Baseball, from the first diamond in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to the playing fields of Venezuela, Japan, and Poland.
288 pages - 140 illustrations (60 color photos) 8 1/2 x 11 ISBN 0-271-02118-7 Cloth - hardcover: $35.00 Published by Penn State University Press
Play Ball! charts Little Leagues history from the earliest days and shows how, in many respects, its history parallels Americas 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. Today, Little League is played on 12,000 fields in every U.S. state and in 103 other countries on six continents. 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.
The remarkable story of Little League Baseball, from the first diamond in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to the playing fields of Venezuela, Japan, and Poland.
288 pages - 140 illustrations (60 color photos) 8 1/2 x 11 ISBN 0-271-02118-7 Cloth - hardcover: $35.00 Published by Penn State University Press
Play Ball! charts Little Leagues history from the earliest days and shows how, in many respects, its history parallels Americas 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. Today, Little League is played on 12,000 fields in every U.S. state and in 103 other countries on six continents. 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.
