![]() | James T. Farrell and Baseball: Dreams and Realism on Chicago''s South Side Subjects: Baseball -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History; Negro leagues -- History; Baseball -- United States -- History; Farrell James T. (James Thomas) 1904–1979; Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century; James T. Farrell and Baseball is a social history of baseball on Chicago's South Side, drawing on the writings of novelist James T. Farrell along with historical sources. Charles DeMotte shows how baseball in the early decades of the twentieth century developed on all levels and in all areas of Chicago, America's second largest city at the time, and how that growth intertwined with Farrell's development as a fan and a writer who used baseball as one of the major themes of his work. Charles DeMotte is an adjunct professor of sociology at the State University of New York College at Cortland. He is the author of Bat, Ball, and Bible: Baseball and Sunday Observance in New York (Potomac Books, 2012). |
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