| Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908 Contributor(s): Sullivan, Dean A. (Author), Sullivan, Dean A. (Editor), Rader, Benjamin G. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0803292449 ISBN-13: 9780803292444 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1997 Annotation: This collections of 120 documents illuminates the beginnings of baseball as it evolved from a casual, loosely organized village social event before the Civil War to the national, formally organized, and thoroughly capitalist and professional undertaking of the twentieth century. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Baseball - History |
| Dewey: 796.357 |
| LCCN: 94030847 |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6.01" W x 8.98" (1.00 lbs) 326 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Readers [get] a box seat at the game that became a national obsession."--London Review of Books. "[Shows] just how compelling original documents can be when shaped into a narrative . . . that includes tales of attitudes, alliances, and deceits, as well as the development of performances, rules, and equipment."--Canadian Journal of the History of Sport. This compilation of 120 primary writings documents baseball's first century, from a loosely organized village social event to the arrival of the National League. Collecting from a wide range of sources-including newspaper accounts, letters, folk poetry, songs, and annual guides-Dean A. Sullivan of Fairfax, Virginia, progresses chronologically from the earliest known baseball reference (1825) to the creation of the Doubleday Myth (1908). Benjamin G. Rader, author of Baseball: A History of America's Game is a professor of history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. |
