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  • Baseball

    A HIstory of America's Game

    by Benjamin G. Rader ...
    Series series Sport and Society
    Analytics, technology, and the most ambitious rewrite of the rulebook in fifty years have reshaped baseball. Benjamin G. Rader’s account of the American pastime moves from diamonds scratched out of commons and corn fields to the multimedia theme parks doubling as today’s baseball stadiums. The fifth edition follows the long arc of the game’s history into the third decade of the twenty-first ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • When Grandpa Delivered Babies and Other Ozarks Vignettes

    by Benjamin G. Rader ...
    People in the Ozarks have long told humorous vignettes that make sense of triumph and tragedy, relay family and local history, and of course entertain. Benjamin G. Rader’s memoir offers a loving portrait of the Ozarks of his youth, where his grandfather midwifed babies and his great uncle Jerry Rader laughed so hard at one of his own stories that he choked to death on a pork chop. As he reveals ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Academic Mind and Reform

    The Influence of Richard T. Ely in American Life

    by Benjamin G. Rader ...
    For over two generations economist Richard T. Ely popularized a wide spectrum of significant liberal social principles and mirrored many of the dilemmas, frustrations, and successes of the academician as a reformer. He was the originator of many ideas that agitated American reform circles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and unlike most professors of his time, he frequently ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Down on Mahans Creek

    A History of an Ozarks Neighborhood

    by Benjamin G. Rader ...
    Series series Ozarks Studies
    In Down on Mahans Creek, Benjamin Rader provides a fascinating look at a neighborhood in the Missouri Ozarks from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. He explores the many ways in which Mahans Creek, though remote, was never completely isolated or self-sufficient. The residents were deeply affected by the Civil War, and the arrival of the railroad and the timber boom in the 1890s ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

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    Baseball

    A History of America's Game

    by Benjamin G. Rader ...
    Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 40 min

    A succinct history of baseball, newly revised and updated. In this third edition of his lively history of America's game, widely recognized as the best of its kind, Benjamin G. Rader expands his scope, covering record crowds and record income, construction of new ballparks, a change in the strike zone, a surge in recruiting Japanese players, and an emerging cadre of explosive long-ball hitters. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook