Charles Demotte

James T. Farrell and Baseball (eBook, ePUB)

Dreams and Realism on Chicago's South Side

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

James T. Farrell and Baseball is a social history of baseball on Chicago's South Side, drawing on the writings of novelist James T. Farrell along with historical sources. Charles DeMotte shows how baseball in the early decades of the twentieth century developed on all levels and in all areas of Chicago, America's second largest city at the time, and how that growth intertwined with Farrell's development as a fan and a writer who used baseball as one of the major themes of his work. DeMotte goes beyond Farrell's literary focus to tell a larger story about baseball on Chicago's South Side during this time-when Charles Comiskey's White Sox won two World Series and were part of a rich baseball culture that was widely played at the amateur, semipro, and black ball levels. DeMotte highlights the 1919-20 Black Sox fix and scandal, which traumatized not only Farrell and Chicago but also baseball and the broader culture. By tying Farrell's fictional and nonfictional works to Chicago's vibrant baseball history, this book fills an important gap in the history of baseball during the Deadball Era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496218704
• Artikelnr.: 59625647

Autorenporträt

CHARLES DEMOTTE teaches sociology and anthropology at SUNY Cortland. He received his PhD in history from the University of Kansas in 1977 and is the author of The Inner Side of History (1997), as well as numerous articles on baseball and American culture. He lives in Freeville, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface    
Acknowledgments    
Introduction    
1. Growing Up on the South Side    
2. Farrell, Baseball, and the Making of a Literary Mind    
3. Danny O’Neill’s Baseball Dreams    
4. Chicago’s Summer Pastime    
5. The College Game, Baseball Diplomacy, and the Summer Controversy    
6. Rube Foster and Chicago’s Black South Side Teams     
7. Comiskey and Chicago’s White South Side Team    
8. The Business of Baseball     
9. The Fix, the Scandal, and the Response    
10. Looking Backward    
Epilogue    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index