What are some books that talk about how baseball changed American Culture?
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I don't know if it changed it, but David Halberstam's "October 1964" might have been a reflection of American culture at that time of the book's setting. A friend of mine from a few years ago read it and enjoyed it, but I don't remember exactly what appealed to him.
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Berlitz books are fantastic. Some come with audio tapes.\ngood luck!
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Ball Four is a very good book even though it is now 36 years old.\nI think I remember seeing Jim Bouton on the ESPN show hosted by Bob Ley a short while ago.  Bouton said that if you gave a pitcher a pill that would guarantee 20 wins but cut 5 years from their life, most would do that.\n\nBut you are right, "greenies" were the stepping stone to steroids.  Luckily, the greenies are baned now as well.  I remember people saying that the lack of greenies, or amphetamines, would cause a bigger change in the game than the lack of steroids.  Supposedly it will be much harder to play everyday without the chemical pick-me-up.  It is impossible to say, but it does seem like more players are getting a day of rest from the lineup more often this year.  Or I could just be noticing it more because of the recent ban on greenies.
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The book, The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran and something cool from your home state.  The book is a nice poetry type book.\n\np.s.  There's always an apple pie magnet, nothing is as american as apple pie and baseball.  Frig magnets are cool and personal.
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Books about baseball in the past will bring back good memories, such as \n\nThe boys of summer\nor The Summer of 49\n\nor any sports book by Roger Kahn\n\nA sports blooper dvd these are fun to watch\n\nTickets to a local sporting event
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When a good friend's nine-year-old daughter chose to do a school project on the game of football, I sent her the following two books to help her understand the game (since I couldn't be there in person to teach her myself):\n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0970279329/104-2259982-8427901\n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1886161100/104-2259982-8427901\n\nHowever, I think the book you're looking for is this one:\n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/Your-Damn-Beer-Watching-Game/dp/1594861633/ref=pd_sim_b_3/104-2259982-8427901\n\nI can't personally vouch for the Robinson-Peete book, but the books by Clark and Stout fostered an incredible understanding of the game in my friend's daughter, and I wound up buying them for myself, too.  The Clark book is basic (it does say it's a primer) and I could have done without it (I already knew a good bit about the game), but the Stout book is a lot more detailed and was personally useful to me.  They do work well together if you don't know a lick about the game.
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- The Bible (duh)\n- The Jungle (first to look into the meat packing industry and animal rights)\n- Silent Spring (started the environmental revolution)\n- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (gives us a true look at our past and the evils of slavery)\n- Origin of Species (sparked the debate of evolution vs. creationism which is still ongoing today)
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Here is a bit of info - with a link to more info below:\n\nMost cultures have some sort of stick and ball game, cricket being the most well-known. While the exact origins of baseball are unknown, most historians agree that it is based on the English game of rounders. It began to become quote popular in this country in the early 19th century, and many sources report the growing popularity of a game called "townball", "base", or "baseball".\n\nThroughout the early part of that century, small towns formed teams, and baseball clubs were formed in larger cities. In 1845, Alexander Cartwright wanted to formalize a list of rules by which all team could play. Much of that original code is still in place today. Although popular legend says that the game was invented by Abner Doubleday, baseball's true father was Cartwright.\n\nThe first recorded baseball contest took place a year later, in 1846. Cartwright's Knickerbockers lost to the New York Baseball Club in a game at the Elysian Fields, in Hoboken, New Jersey. These amateur games became more frequent and more popular. In 1857, a convention of amateur teams was called to discuss rules and other issues. Twenty five teams from the northeast sent delegates. The following year, they formed the National Association of Base Ball Players, the first organized baseball league. In its first year of operation, the league supported itself by occasionally charging fans for admission. The future looked very bright.
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Many have the important details:\n\nThe trade/sale of Babe Ruth from the Sox to the Yanks and the resulting curse\nThe careers of DiMaggio and Williams\nthe 1978 comeback of the Yanks resulting in the one game playoff, won by the Yanks and Bucky "F____" Debt\nThe Red Sox finally reversing the curse in 2004\n\nThere's so much rich history here.
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what's this have to do with baseball?
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You might be able to find cool pictures if you look on Baseball Video Game Sites. Just type in the name of the game. it will have images.
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BBQs, Communities, and Baseball:\nAn Analysis of Patriotism's Relevance in Today's Children.\n\nTalk about how patriotism brings a community together and encourages kids to get along through friendly competition, sharing ideas, and making friends.\n\nAnd no plagiarizing.
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Given the results of the midterm elections, and given the fact that large groups of American evangelical Christians seem to have changed voting patterns and abandoned Republican candidates, I'd nominate David Kuo's book, _Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction_.\n\nIt was on the NY Times Bestseller list the month before the elections, and even folks who don't read much heard about this book, since it got mass media coverage.
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a HUGE impact. look at the da vinci code. even the author said it was completely fiction and people still took it seriously and started to question their ways of life and religion. or take the red book everyone carried in communist china. that little book ruled their lives (along with mao, but he was the author so it's all connected). there you go. it can change a person's whole point of view almost instantly
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One I enjoyed reading was "Foxes Book of Martyrs." It's a history of people who were martyred for the faith.  It provides some historical context, but most of all it tells personal stories of people who had deep convictions about what it means to be a Christian.
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Red Legs and Black Sox : Edd Roush and the Untold Story of the 1919 World Series
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yes i have read tintin in America, blue lotus, and cigars of the pharaoh. really cool books and worth reading.