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Sinopse

Baseball has been celebrated as “America’s National Pastime”  for more than one hundred and fifty years, and recalls what, at  least in retrospect, seems to be an earlier, more innocent age—  long summer afternoons and sandlot ball, fresh rural air or  brownstone stoops. In part, this is because most of those who  love the game played as children and followed their favorite bigleague  teams as children. It is not a game one grows out of, and  once smitten, most baseball lovers remain true, passing on their  love of the game to their children.  And the game itself is ever young, the succession of baseball  heroes unbroken: Honus Wagner to Ty Cobb to Babe Ruth and  Lou Gehrig, to Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams, to Henry  Aaron, Mickey Mantle, and Willie Mays, to Mike Schmidt, and  Cal Ripken, and Tony Gwynn, to the stars of the present. Cy  Young, Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson, Lefty Grove, Bob  Feller, Sandy Koufax, Juan Marichal, and Bob Gibson, each  generation has its heroes and cherishes the memory of those  gone before as an ongoing counterpart to daily life—through  the War and the Depression, through the fifties and sixties, and  so on to the present day. This course is a celebration of baseball’s  rich past—and of a game stronger than ever.

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Data de publicação: 12/09/2008; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2007. Copyright Statment: —

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