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Hardcover Inventing Baseball Heroes: Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, and the Sporting Press in America Book
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ISBN: 0807156116

ISBN13: 9780807156117

Inventing Baseball Heroes: Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, and the Sporting Press in America

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In Inventing Baseball Heroes, Amber Roessner examines herocrafting in sports journalism through an incisive analysis of the work surrounding two of baseball's most enduring personalities -- Detroit Tigers outfielder Ty Cobb and New York Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson. While other scholars have demonstrated that the mythmakers of the Golden Age of Sports Writing (1920--1930) manufactured heroes out of baseball players for the mainstream media,...

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