Review — Baseball and the American Dream: Race, Class, Gender and the National Pastime

October 12, 2006

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<p>Appeared in ForeWord Magazine, July/August 2001</p>

<p><a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=150,height=223,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/65607638.jpg”><img title=”65607638″ height=”148″ alt=”65607638″ src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/65607638.jpg” width=”100″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px” /></a> &quot;In his preface to <em>Baseball and the American Dream: Race, Class, Gender and the National Pastime</em>, editor Robert Elias notes that baseball ‘offers a common denominator that cuts across conflicting ideologies. Baseball provides and also illustrates some of the best that America has to offer. It also features some of the more disturbing characteristics of society.’&quot; </p>

<p><a href=”http://forewordmagazine.com/reviews/viewreviews.aspx?reviewID=2189″>Read the full review from ForeWordMagazine.com</a>.</p>

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