| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Book Review

Past Time: Baseball as History. By Jules Tygiel. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xiii, 258 pp. Cloth, $25.00, ISBN 0-19-508958-8. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-19-514604-2.)

In his introduction to Past Time, Jules Tygiel states that this collection of essays is about American history and should not be mistaken for a book about baseball. His focus is not the game on the field, but rather 1

the broader baseball experience: how fans received and processed their baseball information; how they witnessed the games; what baseball symbolized in different eras; and how each generation reinvented the national pastime to fit its own material reality and ideological perceptions.

In nine chapters (which he calls innings) Tygiel presents an engaging and thoughtful interpretation of many aspects of the social and cultural history of the national pastime. While the book neglects the theme of nationalism, it is exceptionally strong on the issues of statistics, race relations, the role of the media, and the geographical expansion of the sport. . . .

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