Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game - Couverture rigide

Thorn, John

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ISBN 10 : 0743294033 ISBN 13 : 9780743294034

Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 2011

Synopsis

Book by Thorn John

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Now available in paperback, the “fresh and fascinating” ( The Plain Dealer, Cleveland), “splendid and brilliant” ( Philadelphia Daily News) history of the early game by the Official Historian of Major League Baseball.

Who really invented baseball? Forget Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown and Alexander Cartwright. Meet Daniel Lucius Adams, William Rufus Wheaton, and other fascinating figures buried beneath the falsehoods that have accrued around baseball’s origins. This is the true story of how organized baseball started, how gambling shaped the game from its earliest days, and how it became our national pastime and our national mirror.

Baseball in the Garden of Eden draws on original research to tell how the game evolved from other bat-and-ball games and gradually supplanted them, how the New York game came to dominate other variants, and how gambling and secret professionalism promoted and plagued the game. From a religious society’s plot to anoint Abner Doubleday as baseball’s progenitor to a set of scoundrels and scandals far more pervasive than the Black Sox Fix of 1919, this entertaining book is full of surprises. Even the most expert baseball fan will learn something new with almost every page.

Biographie de l'auteur :

John Thorn co-created the groundbreaking Total Baseball, the sabermetric classic The Hidden Game of Baseball, and was the chief consultant for Ken Burns’s television series Baseball. He was appointed Official Historian of Major League Baseball in 2011.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0743294033
• ISBN 13: 9780743294034
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 365