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100 1  Fountain, Charles. 
245 10 Under the March sun|h[electronic resource] :|bthe story of
       spring training /|cCharles Fountain. 
260    Oxford ;|aNew York :|bOxford University Press,|c2009. 
300    1 online resource (viii, 322 pages, [8] pages of plates) :
       |billustrations 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
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504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-281) and 
       index. 
505 0  Prologue: Under the March Sun; 1. Myths, Madcaps, and 
       Misbehavior: Spring Training in the Nineteenth Century; 2.
       St. Petersburg's Mr. Baseball; 3. Spring Training Takes 
       Root; 4. A Sportswriter Helps to End Separate but Hardly 
       Equal; 5. Mr. O'Malley's Dodgertown; 6. The Bottom Line 
       Crowds Out the Box Score; 7. Red Sox Nation Flies South; 
       8. "Let the Tourists Put in Their Two Cents"; 9. Changing 
       the Dynamic: Lee County and the Twins; 10. Fields of 
       Broken Dreams; 11. Breathing Braves Air; 12. The Chief Big
       Ho and Car Rentals: The Cactus League Comes of Age. 
520    There is nothing in all of American sport quite like 
       baseball's spring training. This annual six-week ritual, 
       whose origins date back nearly a century and a half, fires
       the hearts and imaginations of fans who flock by the 
       hundreds of thousands to places like Dodgertown to glimpse
       superstars and living legends in a relaxed moment and 
       watch the drama of journeyman veterans and starry-eyed 
       kids in search of that last spot on the bench. In Under 
       the March Sun, Charles Fountain recounts for the first 
       time the full and fascinating history of spring training 
       and its growth from a shoestring-budget ro. 
588 0  Print version record. 
590    eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic 
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650  0 Spring training (Baseball) 
655  4 Electronic books. 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aFountain, Charles.|tUnder the March sun.
       |dOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009
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