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Playing for keeps : a history of early baseball /

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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Goldstein, Warren (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Édition:20th anniversary edition.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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