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
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Goldstein, Warren (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Edición:20th anniversary edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
1800-1899
Baseball > United States > History > 19th century.
GAMES > Gambling > Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Reference.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Sports.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Baseball.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface to the 20th Anniversary Edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • I. The Culture of Organized Baseball, 1857-1866
  • 1. The Base Ball Fraternity
  • 2. Excitement and Self-Control
  • 3. The "Manly Pastime"
  • II. Amateurs into Professionals, 1866-1876
  • 4. Growth, Division, and "Disorder"
  • 5. "Revolving" and Professionalism
  • 6. The National Game
  • 7. Amateurs in Rebellion
  • 8. Professional Leagues and the Baseball Workplace
  • Epilogue: Playing for Keeps
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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