Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball - Couverture rigide

Goldstein, Warren Jay

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801418291 ISBN 13 : 9780801418297

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 1989

Synopsis

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 increasingly disciplined labor of skilled player-employees. Playing for Keeps is an insightful, in-depth account of the game that became America's premier spectator sport for nearly a century.

Reconstructing the culture and experience of early baseball through a careful reading of the sporting press, baseball guides, and the correspondence of the player-manager Harry Wright, Warren Goldstein discovers the origins of many modern controversies during the game's earliest decades.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801418291
• ISBN 13: 9780801418297
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
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• Personne responsable: non disponible