{"id":2726,"date":"2015-08-14T13:38:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T13:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=2726"},"modified":"2015-08-14T13:38:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T13:38:58","slug":"ball-bat-bible-baseball-and-sunday-observance-in-new-york-is-special-collections-featured-book-for-august-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2015\/08\/14\/ball-bat-bible-baseball-and-sunday-observance-in-new-york-is-special-collections-featured-book-for-august-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Ball, Bat &amp; Bible Baseball and Sunday Observance in New York is Special Collections\u2019 Featured Book for August 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2015\/08\/baseball-book.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2730\" alt=\"baseball book\" src=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2015\/08\/baseball-book.jpg\" width=\"343\" height=\"512\" \/><\/a>In honor of a national pastime, <i>Ball, Bat &amp; Bible Baseball and Sunday Observance in New York,<\/i> has been selected as the featured book for August 2015.\u00a0 Written by Charles DeMotte, baseball historian, this book chronicles the social and moral controversy over New York State\u2019s blue laws, which sought to restrict social activities on Sundays, the traditional day of religious observation.\u00a0 During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries baseball was the center of this conflict.<\/p>\n<p>From its inception, baseball, was part of the fabric of communities across the country and played an important social role.\u00a0 The baseball and Sunday observance question involved the clash of religious organizations, civil and lobbying groups, and local and state politics.\u00a0 The debate intensified as other movements, such as temperance and the crusades against boxing and gambling were beginning to gain momentum.\u00a0 Deep class, racial, religious, and ethnic divisions in New York\u2019s social order contributed to the issue as well.<\/p>\n<p><i>Bat, Ball &amp; Bible<\/i> chronicles not only baseball during this period, but rather illuminates a \u201cculture war\u201d whose effects are still being felt today.\u00a0 Reflecting a number of contemporary religious and cultural issues, the book has appeal far beyond baseball.<\/p>\n<p><i>Ball, Bat &amp; Bible Baseball and Sunday Observance in New York <\/i>is part of the Local History Collection.\u00a0 To see the book visit Special Collections, located on the second floor of the Glenn G. Bartle Library off of the North Reading Room.\u00a0 Special Collections\u00a0is open to the public 10 a.m. \u2013 4 p.m. Monday \u2013 Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Call number:\u00a0 GV863.N72 D46 2013. The Local History Collection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of a national pastime, Ball, Bat &amp; Bible Baseball and Sunday Observance in New York, has been selected as the featured book for August 2015.\u00a0 Written by Charles DeMotte, baseball historian, this book chronicles the social and moral controversy over New York State\u2019s blue laws, which sought to restrict social activities on Sundays, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-featured-book","8":"category-local-history"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}