{"647461":{"#nid":"647461","#data":{"type":"news","title":" Society for American Baseball Research Recognizes \u0027War Fever\u0027 by Johnny Smith","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Society for American Baseball Research awarded \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hsoc.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/johnny-smith\u0022\u003EJohnny Smith\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;the Larry Ritter Book Award for\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.basicbooks.com\/titles\/randy-roberts\/war-fever\/9781541672673\/\u0022\u003EWar Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003ESmith, the Julius C. \u0022Bud\u0022 Shaw Professor of Sports History in the School of History and Sociology, shares the accolade with his\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EWar Fever \u003C\/em\u003Eco-author, Randy Roberts of Purdue University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Larry Ritter Book Award recognizes works that demonstrate \u0022original research or analysis, a fresh perspective, compelling thesis, impressive insight, accuracy, and clear, graceful prose.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWar Fever,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ewhich the award committee called \u0022meticulously researched and riveting,\u0022 is a portrait of three men in Boston in 1918 \u2014 a symphony conductor, a Harvard law student, and baseball star Babe Ruth \u2014 whose lives were changed by the Spanish Flu and World War I.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Randy Roberts and I are truly honored to be recognized by the Society for American Baseball Research,\u0022 Smith said. \u0022Winning the Larry Ritter Book Award means a great deal because it comes from an organization of researchers and writers who truly know baseball history. We are grateful that the award committee found \u003Cem\u003EWar Fever\u003C\/em\u003E worthy of this generous award.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWar Fever,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ewhich the award committee called \u0022meticulously researched and riveting,\u0022 is a portrait of three men in Boston in 1918 \u2014 a symphony conductor, a Harvard law student, and baseball star Babe Ruth \u2014 whose lives were changed by the Spanish Flu and World War I.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0027War Fever\u0027 is a portrait of three men in Boston in 1918 \u2014 a symphony conductor, a Harvard law student, and baseball star Babe Ruth \u2014 whose lives were changed by the Spanish Flu and WWI."}],"uid":"35766","created_gmt":"2021-05-14 13:48:44","changed_gmt":"2023-10-19 18:23:45","author":"dminardi3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-05-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-05-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"633794":{"id":"633794","type":"image","title":"1918 Red Sox at Fenway Park","body":"\u003Cp\u003EThe 1918 Boston Red Sox on the field at Fenway Park.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1585081147","gmt_created":"2020-03-24 20:19:07","changed":"1697739953","gmt_changed":"2023-10-19 18:25:53","alt":"The 1918 Boston Red Sox on the field at Fenway Park.","file":{"fid":"241157","name":"1918_Boston_Red_Sox e.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/1918_Boston_Red_Sox%20e.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/1918_Boston_Red_Sox%20e.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":444071,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/1918_Boston_Red_Sox%20e.jpg?itok=Y9qAP1DK"}}},"media_ids":["633794"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"365","name":"Research"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDi Minardi\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Edi.minardi@gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["di.minardi@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}