Date of Award
2014
Call Number
GV863.M22 H63 2014
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
American New England Studies
First Advisor
Kent C. Ryden
Keywords
Baseball, Maine, American sports, Boothbay Harbor, identity, community
Abstract
During the summer months of the first decade of the twentieth century, the Boothbay Harbor region was invigorated with baseball fever. By 1900, Americans had come to understand baseball as its national game, and Boothbay Harbor discovered and nourished the game in the final decades of the nineteenth century. But as the twentieth century began, baseball became more than a game: it was a business, a spectacle, and an opportunity for inhabitants of the region to define themselves based upon the team they supported.
Recommended Citation
Hoffman, Christopher G.F. MA, ""The Struggle for the Supremacy of the Coast": Baseball and Identity in Boothbay Harbor, Maine" (2014). All Student Scholarship. 68.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/etd/68
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