LEADER 00000cam a2200637Ia 4500 001 ocn317120733 003 OCoLC 005 20160527040824.3 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 090326s2009 enkaf ob 001 0 eng d 019 476246528|a646809653|a656467408|a815760397|a819501548 |a821624246 020 9780199707317|q(electronic bk.) 020 0199707316|q(electronic bk.) 020 9780195372038|q(alk. paper) 020 0195372034|q(alk. paper) 020 1281987131 020 9781281987136 035 (OCoLC)317120733|z(OCoLC)476246528|z(OCoLC)646809653 |z(OCoLC)656467408|z(OCoLC)815760397|z(OCoLC)819501548 |z(OCoLC)821624246 037 198713|bMIL 040 N$T|beng|epn|cN$T|dOCLCQ|dIDEBK|dOCLCQ|dCNCGM|dE7B|dTUU |dOCLCQ|dOUN|dOCLCF|dNLGGC|dEBLCP|dMHW|dDEBSZ|dOCLCQ 049 RIDW 050 4 GV875.6|b.F69 2009eb 072 7 SPO|x003020|2bisacsh 072 7 SPO|x003040|2bisacsh 072 7 SPO|x003030|2bisacsh 072 7 WSJT|2bicssc 082 04 796.357/64|222 090 GV875.6|b.F69 2009eb 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 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 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 Collection - North America 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 |z9780195372038|z0195372034|w(DLC) 2008052713 |w(OCoLC)255902025 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=267521|zOnline eBook. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading this eBook|uhttp:// guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 948 |d201606016|cEBSCO|tebscoebooksacademic|lridw 994 92|bRID