Live All You Can : Alexander Joy Cartwright and the Invention of Modern Baseball /

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Laying waste to the notion that Abner Doubleday established the modern game of baseball, acclaimed biographer Jay Martin makes a bold case for A. J. Cartwright (1820-1892), an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and avid ballplayer whose keen perception and restless spirit codified the rules of the sport...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Martin, Jay (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2009]
Temas:
Baseball > United States > Biography.
Baseball > United States > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • The Birth of the Father
  • The Dream
  • Cartwright, Dreaming Again
  • Across the Plains
  • Visions and Revisions
  • Paradise Bound
  • Paradise Found
  • The Last Gasp of the Great Sailing Ships
  • Missionary Baseball
  • Starting All Over Again: It's Gonna Be Rough- but We're Gonna Make It
  • The New Fire Chief
  • Freemasonry Comes to Hawaii
  • A Gift from the Sea-and a Loss
  • Back to Baseball
  • DeWitt and His Brothers
  • Cartwright & Co., Ltd.
  • Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr., American
  • The Social Whirl
  • Advisor to the Queen
  • Deaths and New Life
  • King Sugar
  • Baseball on the Plantations
  • Spalding's World Tour-First Stop, Hawaii
  • The Final Dissolving
  • Cartwright's Second Life: Myth Into History
  • Appendix 1: Chronology of the Life of Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr.
  • Appendix 2: Did Cartwright "Really Invent" Baseball? Or, How Did the Game Evolve Before He Arrived? A Short Survey of Two Vexed Questions
  • Notes and References
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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