Playing for Keeps : A History of Early Baseball /

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In the late 1850s, organized baseball was a club-based fraternal sport thriving in the cultures of respectable artisans, clerks and shopkeepers, and middle-class sportsmen. Two decades later it had become an entertainment business run by owners and managers, depending on gate receipts and the increa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Goldstein, Warren
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Edición:Twentieth anniversary edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Baseball.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Reference.
SPORTS & RECREATION > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Business Aspects.
GAMES > Gambling > Sports.
Baseball > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Playing for Keeps
  • Contents
  • Preface to the 20th Anniversary Edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • Histories of the Game
  • A Note on Method
  • Origins
  • I. The Culture of Organized Baseball, 1857â€?1866
  • 1. The Base Ball Fraternity
  • Rites of Play
  • â€oeHard Work and Victoryâ€?
  • Players and Workers
  • Cultural Antecedents
  • 2. Excitement and Self-Control
  • Dangerous Excitement
  • Agents of Control: Rules, Umpires, and Women
  • The Problem of Competition
  • 3. The â€oeManly Pastimeâ€?
  • Men and Boys
  • The Fly Rule
  • Ethics of the Game: Reform vs. CustomFruits of Reform: â€oeAmbitious Rivalries andSelfish Victoriesâ€?
  • II. Amateurs into Professionals, 1866â€?1876
  • 4. Growth, Division, and â€oeDisorderâ€?
  • The Coming of the â€oeGood Old Daysâ€?
  • Growth and Fragmentation
  • Cultural Conflict and Division
  • 5. â€oeRevolvingâ€? and Professionalism
  • The Decline of the National Association
  • Baseball Capital and Baseball Labor
  • 6. The National Game
  • Home and Away
  • The Birth of the Cincinnati Red Stockings
  • Uniform Identities
  • Management, Triumph, and Defeat: The RedStockings of 1869 and 18707. Amateurs in Rebellion
  • The Amateurist Critique of Professional Baseball
  • â€oeRestoringâ€? the Pastime
  • 8. Professional Leagues and the Baseball Workplace
  • â€oeBaseball Is Business Nowâ€?
  • The Origins of Baseball Statistics
  • The National League
  • Epilogue: Playing for Keeps
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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