Playing with Tigers: A Minor League Chronicle of the Sixties Contributor(s): Gmelch, George (Author) |
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ISBN: 1496219589 ISBN-13: 9781496219589 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Sports & Recreation | Baseball - History - Biography & Autobiography | Sports |
Dewey: 796.357 |
LCCN: 2019953008 |
Physical Information: 0.66" H x 6" W x 9" (0.96 lbs) 294 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1960's |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In 1965 George Gmelch signed a contract to play professional baseball with the Detroit Tigers organization. Gmelch grew up sheltered in an all-white, affluent San Francisco suburb, and he knew little of the world outside. Over the next four seasons, he came of age in baseball's Minor Leagues through experiences ranging from learning the craft of the professional game to becoming conscious of race and class for the first time. George Gmelch is a professor of anthropology at the University of San Francisco and at Union College in Schenectady, New York. He is the author of fourteen books, including In the Field: Life and Work in Cultural Anthropology; In the Ballpark: The Working Lives of Baseball People, with J. J. Weiner (Bison Books, 2006); Inside Pitch: Life in Professional Baseball (Bison Books, 2006); and Baseball Beyond Our Borders: An International Pastime, with Dan Nathan (Nebraska, 2017). |