Playing for Keeps : : A History of Early Baseball / / Warren Jay Goldstein.
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 increas...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | 20th Anniversary Edition |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the 20th Anniversary Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- I. The Culture of Organized Baseball, 1857-1866
- 1. The Base Ball Fraternity
- 2. Excitement and Self-Control
- 3. The "Manly Pastime"
- II. Amateurs into Professionals, 1866-1876
- 4. Growth, Division, and "Disorder"
- 5. "Revolving" and Professionalism
- 6. The National Game
- 7. Amateurs in Rebellion
- 8. Professional Leagues and the Baseball Workplace
- Epilogue: Playing for Keeps
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index