<p>Evolving in an urban landscape, professional baseball attracted a dedicated fan base among the inhabitants of major cities, including ethnic and racial minorities, for whom the game was a vehicle for assimilation. But to what extent were these groups welcomed within the world of baseball, and what effect did their integration&#8212;or, as in the case of African Americans, their ultimate inability to integrate&#8212;have on the culture of a pastime that had recently become a national obsession? How did their mutual striving for acceptance affect relations between these minorities? (In deep and long-lasting ways, as it turns out.) This book provides a carefully considered portrait of baseball as both a sporting profession&#8212;one with quick-changing rules and roles&#8212;and as an institution that reinforced popular ideas about cultural identity, masculinity and American exceptionalism.</p>

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