How Long to Read Baseball

By Steven Philip Gietschier

How Long Does it Take to Read Baseball?

It takes the average reader 14 hours and 50 minutes to read Baseball by Steven Philip Gietschier

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years explores the history of organized baseball during the middle of the twentieth century, examining the sport on and off the field and contextualizing its development as both sport and business within the broader contours of American history. Steven P. Gietschier begins with the Great Depression, looking at how those years of economic turmoil shaped the sport and how baseball responded. Gietschier covers a then-burgeoning group of owners, players, and key figures--among them Branch Rickey, Larry MacPhail, Hank Greenberg, Ford Frick, and several others--whose stories figure prominently in baseball's past and some of whom are still prominent in its collective consciousness. Combining narrative and analysis, Gietschier tells the game's history across more than three decades while simultaneously exploring its politics and economics, including, for example, how the game confronted and barely survived the United States' entry into World War II; how owners controlled their labor supply--the players; and how the business of baseball interacted with the federal government. He reveals how baseball handled the return to peacetime and the defining postwar decade, including the integration of the game, the demise of the Negro Leagues, the emergence of television, and the first efforts to move franchises and expand into new markets. Gietschier considers much of the work done by biographers, scholars, and baseball researchers to inform a new and current history of baseball in one of its more important and transformational periods.

How long is Baseball?

Baseball by Steven Philip Gietschier is 890 pages long, and a total of 222,500 words.

This makes it 300% the length of the average book. It also has 272% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Baseball Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 20 hours and 15 minutes to read Baseball aloud.

What Reading Level is Baseball?

Baseball is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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