Dissertation Information for Jeb Stuart Rosebrook NAME: - Jeb Stuart Rosebrook
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- History
SCHOOL:
- Arizona State University (USA) (1999)
ADVISORS: - Peter Iverson - Albert L. Hurtado
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - Noel J. Stowe
MPACT Status: Fully Complete
Title: Diamonds in the desert: Professional baseball in Arizona and the desert southwest, 1915 to 1958
Abstract: Professional baseball has been a part of Arizona's history since the first major league teams began playing exhibition games in the Grand Canyon state at the turn of the nineteenth century. Before the arrival of the professionals in Arizona, amateur and semi-pro baseball had become an integral part of Arizona's communities since the first recorded games were played in the territory in the early 1870s. After the first big league exhibitions in the 1900s, Arizona boosters succeeded in bringing three types of professional baseball to Arizona for the next six decades: regional minor leagues, major league spring exhibitions, and major league spring training.
The history of professional baseball in the United States is a national, regional, and local story of major and minor leagues, teams and players, owners and communities, boosters and fans. Professional baseball in Arizona from 1915 to 1958 represents an era in American baseball history when regional minor leagues and the majors collectively shared the mantle, "national pastime." Until 1958, when the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants moved west, the major leagues were regional circuits in twelve cities east of the Missouri River. The first six decades of professional baseball in Arizona represents an era in which the regional minor leagues were an integral part of professional baseball. The teams and players who took pride in their "diamonds in the desert" are collectively an important, overlooked chapter in the local, regional, and national history of the saga of America's game, baseball.
This dissertation is a case study of the industry of professional baseball in Arizona and the Southwest from 1915 to 1958. While local boosters supported Arizona's minor league teams, the teams were part of regional leagues that were nationally chartered and supervised. The rise and fall of minor league baseball in the Southwest is a parallel chapter in the history of professional baseball and its promotion as the national pastime since the end of the Civil War. This synthesis constitutes the first attempt at understanding the development, promotion, and decline of professional baseball in urban communities of Arizona and the Southwest during the first half of the twentieth century.
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