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    Baseball Americana: A Visual Journey
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    Baseball Americana: A Visual Journey

    By Harry Katz, Frank Ceresi and Phil Michel

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    A lavishly illustrated history of America's game from the unparalleled collections of the Library of Congress, with a foreword by George F. Will and a new preface by Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress

    “One of the most seductively designed books about the sport to come our way. . . . A book like this, so rich and deep in material. . . . brings baseball history to multifaceted life and reminds us that baseball is the sport that celebrates its history more than any other. . . . This book itself is a form of time-traveling—a pleasurable, often surprising and aesthetic trip.” —San Diego Union-Tribune

    Baseball, the sport that helped reunify the country in the years after the Civil War, remains the National Pastime. The Library of Congress houses the world's largest baseball collection, documenting the history of the game and providing a unique look at America since the late 1700s. Baseball Americana presents the best of the best from that treasure trove. From baseball's biggest stars to street urchins, from its most newsworthy stories to sandlot and Little League games, the book examines baseball's hardscrabble origins, rich cultural heritage, and uniquely American character.

    The more than 350 fabulous illustrations—many never before published—feature first-generation, vintage photographic and chromolithographic baseball cards; photographs of famous players and ballparks; and newspaper clippings, cartoons, New Deal photographs, and baseball advertisements. Packed with images that will surprise and thrill even the most expert collector, Baseball Americana is a gift for every baseball fan.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMay 15, 2018
    ISBN9780062863096
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    Baseball Americana: A Visual Journey
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    Harry Katz

    Harry Katz is the former head curator in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress and a lifelong Red Sox fan. He divides his time between Washington D.C., and Del Mar, California.

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      Catalogue and collection accompanying the Library of Congress exhibition, recording the gusto and fun of the American pastime, but also its intensity and reach. The game has a rich heritage, fully studied, a richness conveyed here above all in photographs and illustrations, of subjects now long-dead but their charm captured in these images of toothy bat-boys and hearty women players, or in the self-confident American vitality set down in cover images for Saturday Evening Post and the like.