| To Every Thing a Season: Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia, 1909-1976 Contributor(s): Kuklick, Bruce (Author) |
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ISBN: 069102104X ISBN-13: 9780691021041 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $35.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1993 Annotation: "An exceptionally valuable contribution to the new genre of serious and adult baseball history. . . . As for those who say how important is a ball park really, I'd say this. In a way the Coliseum was a ball park. Look at how much it tells us about Imperial Rome."--Roger Kahn |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Baseball - History |
| Dewey: 796.357 |
| LCCN: 90045857 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6.09" W x 9.24" (0.85 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Geographic Orientation - Pennsylvania |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Shibe Park was demolished in 1976, and today its site is surrounded by the devastation of North Philadelphia. Kuklick, however, vividly evokes the feelings people had about the home of the Philadelphia Athletics and later the Phillies. |