Baseball and Cricket: The Creation of American Team Sports, 1838-72 - Brossura

Kirsch, George B.

 
9780252074455: Baseball and Cricket: The Creation of American Team Sports, 1838-72
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ISBN 10: 0252074459 ISBN 13: 9780252074455
Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 2007

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How and why Americans chose baseball over its early rival, cricket, as the national pastime

George B. Kirsch takes us back to amateur playing fields around the country to re-create the excitement of the early matches, the players, clubs, and their fans. As a narrative history, Baseball and Cricket places the growing popularity of the two sports within the social context of mid-nineteenth-century American cities. The book's comparative analysis follows baseball's transition from a leisure sport to a commercialized, professional enterprise and offers the first complete discussion of the early American cricket clubs.

A volume in the series Sport and Society, edited by Benjamin G. Rader and Randy Roberts

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Book by Kirsch George B

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Editore
Univ of Illinois Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2007
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0252074459
ISBN 13 
9780252074455
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
277
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