Author: Peter Hamilton MyersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The First of the Knickerbockers: a Tale of 1673
Author: Peter Hamilton MyersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Knickerbockers
Author: Reginald De KovenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Last of the Knickerbockers
Author: Herman Knickerbocker VieléPublisher:
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
How Baseball Happened
Author: Thomas W. GilbertPublisher: Godine+ORM
ISBN: 1567926886
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The untold story of baseball’s nineteenth-century origins: “a delightful look at a young nation creating a pastime that was love from the first crack of the bat” (Paul Dickson, The Wall Street Journal). You may have heard that Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright invented baseball. Neither did. You may have been told that a club called the Knickerbockers played the first baseball game in 1846. They didn’t. Perhaps you’ve read that baseball’s color line was first crossed by Jackie Robinson in 1947. Nope. Baseball’s true founders don’t have plaques in Cooperstown. They were hundreds of uncredited, ordinary people who played without gloves, facemasks, or performance incentives. Unlike today’s pro athletes, they lived full lives outside of sports. They worked, built businesses, and fought against the South in the Civil War. In this myth-busting history, Thomas W. Gilbert reveals the true beginnings of baseball. Through newspaper accounts, diaries, and other accounts, he explains how it evolved through the mid-nineteenth century into a modern sport of championships, media coverage, and famous stars—all before the first professional league was formed in 1871. Winner of the Casey Award: Best Baseball Book of the Year
Major League Baseball in Gilded Age Connecticut
Author: David ArcidiaconoPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786436778
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
It's been more than a century since Connecticut had big league baseball, but in the 1870s, Middletown, Hartford, and New Haven fielded professional teams that competed at the highest level. By the end of the decade, when the state's final big league team, Mark Twain's beloved Hartford Dark Blues, left the National League, baseball's transition from amateur pastime to major league sport had been accomplished. And Connecticut had played a significant role in its development. The history of the Nutmeg State's three major league teams is described here in full, and the author thoughtfully examines their influence within the regional baseball scene.
Early Professional Baseball and the Sporting Press
Author: R. Terry FurstPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476606250
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
The book analyzes the process by which the collective image of professional baseball was formed. It traces both the negation and the affirmation of ideas in the sports press that would impede or promote the growth of baseball from a recreational pastime to a team sport spectacle in the mid-19th century. The American collective image grew as a result of sports reportage, conversations about baseball in social and work groupings, game attendance (and changing values toward work and play), and reports of gambling. Newspaper editorials and news stories and letters to the editor are studied as to shifting and complex and inter-related sentiments toward playing baseball. Much of this interactive complex was influenced by the English sports ideal and newly formed attitudes toward recreation. Above all, the sports press was the primary shaper of the image of professional baseball.
The Knickerbocker
Author: The Knickerbocker
Author: Charles Fenno HoffmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
The Knickerbocker Jingles
Author: Maud Stoutenburgh EliotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Inventing Baseball
Author: Bill FelberPublisher: SABR, Inc.
ISBN: 1933599421
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
A project of SABR's Nineteenth Century Committee, INVENTING BASEBALL brings to life the greatest games to be played in the game's early years. From the "prisoner of war" game that took place among captive Union soldiers during the Civil War, to the first intercollegiate game (Amherst versus Williams), to the first professional no-hitter, the games in this volume span 1833–1900 and detail the athletic exploits of such players as Cap Anson, Moses "Fleetwood" Walker, Charlie Comiskey, Mike "King" Kelly, and John Montgomery Ward.