To Every Thing a Season Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia, 1909-1976 / Bruce Kuklick.
By: Kuklick, Bruce.
Material type: TextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c1991Description: xii, 237 pages, 16 unnumbered plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 069104788X.Subject(s): Philadelphia Athletics (Baseball team) | Shibe Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions | Pesda Collection | Allegheny West | Allen, Dick | American League | Angott, Sammy | Athletics Lunch | Baker, Frank | Barry, Jack | Bender, Chief | Black Sox | Brooklyn Dodgers | Brown, Walter | Café Shibe | Campanella, Roy | Cochrane, Mickey | Collins, Eddie | Connie Mack statue | Coombs, Jack | Damn Yankees | Depression | Dobbins High School | Dyer, Bill | Eastern Shore League | Fairmount Park | Foxxjirnrnie | Geppert Brothers | Gillietown | Gratersford Prison | Home Run Alley | Johnson, Lyndon | Kerrigan, Frank | Kool World Valley | Lehigh Avenue | Lehigh National Bank | Lehigh Theater | Levy brothers | Maclntyre, Alasdair | Mad Dog | McGraw, John | Montgomery, Bob | Musial, Stan | National Football League | Parisse family | Pennsport Services | Philadelphia Bulletin | civil rights movement | ethnocultural analysis | nostalgiaItem type | Current library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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College Cardholders | College - Blackwood | College Circulating | Book Stacks | HN80 .P5 .K855 1991 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Restricted to Camden County College cardholders. | 31000000434475 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Shibe Park was demolished in 1976, and today its site is surrounded by the devastation of North Philadelphia. Kuklick, however, vividly evokes the feelings people had about the home of the Philadelphia Athletics and later the Phillies.
Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 197-237)
Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. 1909-1932 -- 1. Ben Shibe and Shibe Park -- 2. The Athletics and North City, 1909-1923 -- 3. Days of Glory, 1924-1932 -- Part II. 1929-1954 -- 4. Shibe Park and Depression Era Conflict -- 5. Tenants and Renters -- 6. Baseball and Business -- 7. The Mack Family and Shibe Park, 1946-1954 -- Part III. 1953-1976 -- 8. Connie Mack Stadium, 1953-1970 -- 9. Race Relations -- 10. Urban Renewal? -- 11. Last Days, 1969-1976 -- Epilogue: Common Ground -- Essay on Sources and Notes -- Index.
Shibe Park was demolished in 1976, and today its site is surrounded by the devastation of North Philadelphia. Kuklick, however, vividly evokes the feelings people had about the home of the Philadelphia Athletics and later the Phillies.
Winner of the 1991 SABR-MacMillan Book Award, Society for American Baseball Research