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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2023]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.