Take Me Out To the Ballgame: A History of Baseball in America

And the game itself is ever young, the succession of baseball heroes unbroken: Honus Wagner to Ty Cobb to Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, to Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams, to Henry Aaron, Mickey Mantle, and Willie Mays, to Mike Schmidt, and Cal Ripken, and Tony Gwynn, to the stars of the present. Cy Young, Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson, Lefty Grove, Bob Feller, Sandy Koufax, Juan Marichal, and Bob Gibson, each generation has its heroes and cherishes the memory of those gone before as an ongoing counterpart to daily life-through the War and the Depression, through the fifties and sixties, and so on to the present day. This course is a celebration of baseball's rich past-and of a game stronger than ever.

• Lecture 1 Origin and Fundamental Character of the Game
• Lecture 2 Nineteenth-Century Professional Baseball
• Lecture 3 The Early 1900s
• Lecture 4 The 1910s
• Lecture 5 The 1920s: The First Golden Age
• Lecture 6 The 1930s
• Lecture 7 The Negro Leagues
• Lecture 8 The 1940s
• Lecture 9 The 1950s: The Second Golden Age
• Lecture 10 The 1960s
• Lecture 11 The 1970s
• Lecture 12 The 1980s
• Lecture 13 The 1990s
• Lecture 14 To the Present

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