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Ellis Island to Ebbets Field

Name: Ellis Island to Ebbets Field
Author: Peter Levine
ISBN: 9780195085556

by Peter Levine

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Overview

Filled with marvelous stories, anecdotes and personality profiles, this book explores the importance of sport--both watching and playing--as a middle ground for a minority culture actively determining for itself what it meant to be an American Jew. Photos.

Full of marvelous stories, anecdotes and personalities, this novel explores the importance of sport--both watching and playing--as a middle ground for a minority culture actively determining for themselves what it meant to be American Jews. "Everything a good work of popular history should be."--Detroit Free Press. Photos.

About the Author, Peter Levine

About the Author:
Peter Levine is Professor of History at Michigan State University. He is the author of A.G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball, American Sport: A Documentary History, and the editor of Baseball History, 1986-91