How to Play Golf (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Braid, James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1333044674 ISBN 13 : 9781333044671

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Americans National Game By A, G. SPALDING Price, $2.00 Net A book of 600 pages, profusely illustrated with over 100 full page engravings, and having sixteen forceful cartoons by Homer C. Davenport, the famous American artist. No man in America is better equipped to write on all the varied phases of theN ational Game than is A. G. Spalding. His observation and experience began when the game was young. He gained fame as a pitcher forty years ago, winning a record as player that has never yet been equalled. He was associated with the management of the pastime through trying years of struggle against prevailing evils. He opposed the gamblers; he fought to eradicate drunkenness ;he urged and introduced new and higher ideals for the sport; he was quick to see thaj ball playing and the business management of clubs, at the same time and by the same men, were impracticable ;he knew that ball players might be quite competent as magnates, but not while playing the game; he was in the forefront of the fight against syndicating Base Ball and making of aN ation spastime a sordid Trust; he was the pioneer to lead competing American Base Ball teams to a foreign land ;he took two champion teams toG reat Britain in 1874, and two others on a tour of the world in 1888-9 ;he was present at the birth of theN ational League, and has done as much as any living American to uphold and prolong the life of this great pioneer Base Ball organization. When A. G.
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This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1333044674
• ISBN 13: 9781333044671
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
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