Live all you can : Alexander Joy Cartwright and the invention of modern baseball /

"Laying waste to the notion that Abner Doubleday established the modern game of baseball, the author 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 and engineered i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Martin, Jay, 1935- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2009]
Temas:
Cartwright, Alexander Joy, > 1820-1892.
Cartwright, Alexander Joy, > 1820-1892
Baseball > United States > Biography.
Baseball > United States > History.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Sports.
GAMES > Gambling > Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Reference.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Sports.
Baseball
Social Sciences.
Recreation & Sports.
United States
Biographies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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