Live All You Can : : Alexander Joy Cartwright and the Invention of Modern Baseball / / Jay Martin.
Laying waste to the notion that Abner Doubleday established the modern game of baseball, acclaimed biographer Jay Martin makes a bold case for A. J. Cartwright (1820-1892), an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and avid ballplayer whose keen perception and restless spirit codified the rules of the sport...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (168 p.) :; 20 illus |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- The Birth of the Father
- The Dream
- Cartwright, Dreaming Again
- Across the Plains
- Visions and Revisions
- Paradise Bound
- Paradise Found
- The Last Gasp of the Great Sailing Ships
- Missionary Baseball
- Starting All Over Again: It's Gonna Be Rough- but We're Gonna Make It
- The New Fire Chief
- Freemasonry Comes to Hawaii
- A Gift from the Sea-and a Loss
- Back to Baseball
- DeWitt and His Brothers
- Cartwright & Co., Ltd.
- Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr., American
- The Social Whirl
- Advisor to the Queen
- Deaths and New Life
- King Sugar
- Baseball on the Plantations
- Spalding's World Tour-First Stop, Hawaii
- The Final Dissolving
- Cartwright's Second Life: Myth Into History
- Appendix 1: Chronology of the Life of Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr.
- Appendix 2: Did Cartwright "Really Invent" Baseball? Or, How Did the Game Evolve Before He Arrived? A Short Survey of Two Vexed Questions
- Notes and References
- Acknowledgments
- Index