| Robert M. Pankin - Sports - 1982 - 294 pages
...Minority. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1975. 11 Baseball in Its Social Context LEON H. WARSHAY Introduction Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. — Jacques Barzun A sociological analysis of baseball offers a focus that other approaches — for... | |
| Sports & Recreation - 1983 - 377 pages
...produced. No greater justification for their pursuit is needed than the words of humanist Jacques Barzun: "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game." -" Spalding-Reach Official Baseball Guide, 1940, p. 14. - l Ralph... | |
| Robert Keidel - Business & Economics - 1985 - 264 pages
...world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off. —BILL VEECK Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. . . . —JACQUES BARZUN George Plimpton has observed that the volume of writing about a sport varies... | |
| Jack Salzman, American Studies Association - Art - 1986 - 980 pages
..., Lefty O'Doul (l9l9-34), and Heinie Groh (l9l2-27). Ritter cites Jacques Barzun's contention that "whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn basehall" in arguing that his oral history of basehall is also a chronicle of America. To this end,... | |
| Gary Alan Fine - Social Science - 1987 - 304 pages
...spirit and American values as does no other sport or leisure activity. In the words of Jacques Barzun, "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball" (quoted in Novak 1976, 63). As Tristram Coffin has recognized, "The picture of the father shoving a... | |
| William H. Jr Wiggins - Social Science - 1990 - 236 pages
...baseball is inextricably wrapped up with American history and culture. Jacques Barzun argues that, "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.""" And President Herbert Hoover once said, "Next to religion, baseball has furnished a greater impact... | |
| Harold Seymour, Dorothy Seymour Mills - Social Science - 1989 - 392 pages
...those who do not follow baseball regularly, pause to discuss the contest. As Jacques Barzun once said, "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." This book is a history of baseball which describes the growth of the game in the perspective of American... | |
| Jack Salzman, American Studies Association - Art - 1986 - 980 pages
..., Lefty O'Doul (1919-34), and Heinie Groh (1912-27). Ritter cites Jacques Barzun's contention that "whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball" in arguing that his oral history of baseball is also a chronicle of America. To this end, Ritter asks... | |
| Warren Goldstein, Warren Jay Goldstein - Sports & Recreation - 1991 - 200 pages
...organized baseball during these years. It is not an attempt to substantiate Jacques Barzun's claim that "whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." It neither celebrates "America learning to play" baseball nor chronicles the decline of "true sport"... | |
| Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...Democratic politician, president. Speech, 5 Dec. 1933, on the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. BASEBALL 1 Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game. JACQUES BARZUN (b. 1907), US scholar. Quoted in: Michael Novak,... | |
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