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How Baseball Happened

Autor Thomas W Gilbert
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 sep 2020
How baseball evolved with shocking speed from a casual folk game into a serious adult activity, an instrument of national unification and then a national entertainment industry.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781567926774
ISBN-10: 1567926770
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 157 x 231 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: David R. Godine Publisher

Notă biografică

Thomas W. Gilbert is the author of many baseball books, including Baseball and the Color Line, Roberto Clemente and Playing First. From his Greenpoint, Brooklyn stoop he can throw a baseball to the former site of the Manor House tavern, where members of the Eckford Baseball Club enjoyed a post game drink or two in the 1850s.

Cuprins

Introduction by John Thorn
Amateur Era Timeline
Chapter One: The Wrongness of Baseball History
Chapter Two: Wasps in the Attic
Chapter Three: Escape from the City
Chapter Four: What Makes a River
Chapter Five: It Happened in Brooklyn
Chapter Six: A Ballplayer's Tale
Chapter Seven: Philadelphia Stories
Chapter Eight: Amateur Hour
Chapter Nine: Traveling Team
Afterword
Appendix 1: Game Versus Sport
Appendix 2: What happened to . . .
Bibliography
Photo Credits, Notes
Index