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Baseball and Cricket
- The Creation of American Team Sports, 1838-72
Engelsk Paperback
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Baseball and Cricket
- The Creation of American Team Sports, 1838-72
Engelsk Paperback

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

In discovering 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 recreate 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

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
304
ISBN-13:
9780252074455
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0252074459
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
12 mar 2007
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
University of Illinois Press
Oplagsdato:
12 mar 2007
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge