For the ardent baseball fan, what sets the sport apart - what makes it "the perfect game" - are the treasured memories it evokes of a time gone by. This nostalgic visual history celebrates more than 150 years of baseball's - and America's - past. Beginning in the 1840s and continuing through to the end of the 20th century, the book captures in portraits, watercolours, carvings, painted signs, lithographs and a wide variety of everyday objects reminders of baseball the way it used to be.
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Beginning in the 1840s and continuing through to the end of the 20th century, the book captures in portraits, watercolours, carvings, painted signs, lithographs and a wide variety of everyday objects reminders of baseball the way it used to be.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780810945043
Publisert
2003
Utgiver
Vendor
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Vekt
300 gr
Aldersnivå
01, G
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
150

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Biographical note

Elizabeth V. Warren was the curator of the American Folk Art Museum from 1984 to 1990 and has been the museum's consulting curator since 1991. Warren served as curator of "Young America: A Folk Art History" (1986). "Expressions of a New Spirit" (1989), and "Five-Star Folk Art: One Hundred American Masterpieces" (1990), and as co-curator of "Glorious American Quilts: The Quilt Collection of the Museum of American Folk Art" (1996, with S.L. Eisenstat), each with catalogs. She received her A.B. from Bryn Mawr College and her M.A. in American folk art studies from New York University. Roger Angell, a writer and editor with The New Yorker, has been writing about baseball for more than thirty years. His books include The Summer Game (1972), Late Innings: A Baseball Companion (1982), Once More Around the Park: A Baseball Reader (2001), and A Pitcher's Story: Innings with David Cone (2001).