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Early Professional Baseball and the Sporting Press: Shaping the Image of the Game - Couverture souple

Furst, R. Terry

 
9780786469857: Early Professional Baseball and the Sporting Press: Shaping the Image of the Game
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0786469854 ISBN 13 : 9780786469857
Editeur : McFarland & Co Inc, 2014

Synopsis

The book analyzes the process by which the collective image of professional baseball was formed. It traces both the negation and the affirmation of ideas in the sports press that would impede or promote the growth of baseball from a recreational pastime to a team sport spectacle in the mid-19th century. The American collective image grew as a result of sports reportage, conversations about baseball in social and work groupings, game attendance (and changing values toward work and play), and reports of gambling.

Newspaper editorials and news stories and letters to the editor are studied as to shifting and complex and inter-related sentiments toward playing baseball. Much of this interactive complex was influenced by the English sports ideal and newly formed attitudes toward recreation. Above all, the sports press was the primary shaper of the image of professional baseball.

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À propos de l'auteur

R. Terry Furst is an assistant professor of anthropology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) in New York City.

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Éditeur
McFarland & Co Inc
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0786469854
ISBN 13 
9780786469857
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
184
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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