Desert Hawk Books

 

 

240 pages
19 Illustrations
Bibliographic Essay
5.5" x 8"
Paperback

Quantity:  $13.95 & S/H

 

" Crepeau offers a well-documented reflection of the interrelationship of the development of baseball and society during the Golden Age of Sport.  This era ranges from the 1919 Black Sox 'fix' through the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression until the outbreak of WWII." - Choice.

"Creapeau has written a gem-a thoroughly enjoyable book that will appeal to the casual fan as well as the baseball scholar." - Library Journal.

"Jacques Barzun, the great Columbia University historian, commented years ago that to understand the American character one should understand baseball because that sport encompassed so much of what made America unique.  This book reflects Barzun's remark...Creapeau's approach contains an implied an perceptive assumption: If the 1920s was the golden age of sports, it was, even more, the golden age of the sports writer....Much of Creapeau's story is how sportswriters saw what was going on around them and, in turn, how they shaped the image of baseball." - St Louis Globe-Democrat.

"A solid, dynamic contribution to the understanding of American cultural development between the wars." - Journal of Sport History.