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050 00 $aGV875.A1$bG58 2016
082 00 $a796.357/640977434$223
100 1 $aGmelch, George,$eauthor.
245 10 $aPlaying with Tigers :$ba Minor League chronicle of the Sixties /$cGeorge Gmelch.
264 1 $aLincoln :$bUniversity of Nebraska Press,$c[2016]
300 $axx, 263 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aAmbition for the game -- Breaking in: Duluth-Superior Dukes -- Wearing Kaline's pants: Jamestown Tigers -- A little wildness: Jamestown Tigers -- Spring training: Tiger Town -- Putting up numbers: Daytona Beach Islanders -- Moving up: Daytona to Rocky Mount -- Double passage: the Carolinas -- Southern exposure: the Rocky Mount Leafs -- When the cheering stops: the Rocky Mount Leafs -- Exiled: the Québec Provincial League -- Lights out: Drummondville Les Royaux.
520 $a"In 1965 George Gmelch signed a contract to play professional baseball with the Detroit Tigers organization. Growing up sheltered in an all-white, affluent San Francisco suburb, he knew little of the world outside. Over the next four seasons, he came of age in baseball's Minor Leagues through experiences ranging from learning the craft of the professional game to becoming conscious of race and class for the first time. Playing with Tigers is not a typical baseball memoir. Now a well-known anthropologist, Gmelch recounts a baseball education unlike any other as he got to know small-town life across the United States against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, civil rights protests, and the emergence of the counterculture. The social and political turmoil of the times spilled into baseball, and Gmelch experienced the consequences firsthand as he played out his career in the Jim Crow South. Playing with Tigers captures the gritty, insular, and humorous life and culture of Minor League baseball during a period when both the author and the country were undergoing profound changes. Drawing from journals he kept as a player, letters, and recent interviews with thirty former teammates, coaches, club officials, and even former girlfriends, Gmelch immerses the reader in the life of the Minor Leagues, capturing - in a manner his unique position makes possible - the universal struggle of young athletes trying to make their way"--Publisher's website.
600 10 $aGmelch, George.
610 20 $aDetroit Tigers (Baseball team)$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aMinor league baseball$zUnited States$vAnecdotes.
650 0 $aBaseball players$zUnited States$vAnecdotes.
650 0 $aBaseball$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
852 0 $bglx$hGV875.A1$iG58 2016