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Ballists, dead beats, and muffins : inside early baseball in Illinois /

"Baseball's spread across Illinois paralleled the sport's explosive growth in other parts of the country. Robert D. Sampson taps a wealth of archival research to transport readers to an era when an epidemic of "base ball on the brain" raged from Alton to Woodstock. Focusing...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sampson, Robert D., 1949- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2023]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue : a dying ember
  • First inning : baseball fever and pioneers
  • Second inning : organizing clubs, funding, travel, and the game's rituals
  • Third Inning : playing fields, gambling, and injuries
  • Fourth Inning : the game and Its players
  • Fifth inning : sharing the fun
  • Sixth inning : barriers of race and gender
  • Seventh inning : trouble in baseball's Eden
  • Eighth inning : representative teams
  • Ninth inning : the thrill departs
  • Epilogue : ghosts
  • Appendix A. Illinois baseball teams, by town and year founded, 1865-70
  • Appendix B. Bloomington's fifth ward school-grounds neighborhood
  • Appendix C. Illinois baseball players, by town
  • and team, 1865-70.