Francisco Silva
LTC Humphrey
HIST 2123
April 30, 2015
Past Time Baseball as History In the book “Past Time” by Jules Tygiel he shows us how great the history of baseball can be by going further than just the teams, the records set, and the players. This book has nine chapters resembling that baseball has nine innings to it, starting from the 1850’s to the 1980’s. Tygiel talks about how this book is more about American history then the actual development of baseball. As Tygiel talks more about the American history he relates baseball to the changes that occurred in our society. Tygiel talks about how social forces in chapter 8 “The Homes of the Braves” ended up relocating some teams between the 1950’s and 60’s. This book is also generated a lot from the great leaders from back then like Charles Comiskey, Babe Ruth, Branch Rickey, and so on. …show more content…
Tygiel gives out much detail to what he talks about giving us a good visualization in are heads. As Tygiel talks about the first ever radio broadcast baseball game that took place in 1922 by the announcer Grantland Rice as a voice that was “a little flat, atonal, somewhat awkwardly modulated and unmistakably southern” (Tygiel 68) giving us a description of how they announced because no one truly knew how to announce the games. If you compare what Tygiel says about back then to how announcers talk it is a complete 360 degrees as they speak enthusiastically and never leave a dull moment in today’s time. If it was not for Babe Ruth giving his own interview over the radio, fans would of not sent in letters into the station saying how they loved the tones and liveliness he was putting off making the station learn and get
LTC Humphrey
HIST 2123
April 30, 2015
Past Time Baseball as History In the book “Past Time” by Jules Tygiel he shows us how great the history of baseball can be by going further than just the teams, the records set, and the players. This book has nine chapters resembling that baseball has nine innings to it, starting from the 1850’s to the 1980’s. Tygiel talks about how this book is more about American history then the actual development of baseball. As Tygiel talks more about the American history he relates baseball to the changes that occurred in our society. Tygiel talks about how social forces in chapter 8 “The Homes of the Braves” ended up relocating some teams between the 1950’s and 60’s. This book is also generated a lot from the great leaders from back then like Charles Comiskey, Babe Ruth, Branch Rickey, and so on. …show more content…
Tygiel gives out much detail to what he talks about giving us a good visualization in are heads. As Tygiel talks about the first ever radio broadcast baseball game that took place in 1922 by the announcer Grantland Rice as a voice that was “a little flat, atonal, somewhat awkwardly modulated and unmistakably southern” (Tygiel 68) giving us a description of how they announced because no one truly knew how to announce the games. If you compare what Tygiel says about back then to how announcers talk it is a complete 360 degrees as they speak enthusiastically and never leave a dull moment in today’s time. If it was not for Babe Ruth giving his own interview over the radio, fans would of not sent in letters into the station saying how they loved the tones and liveliness he was putting off making the station learn and get