Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
The Boys' Book of Manly Exercises, Sports, and Games
Author: The reliable book of outdoor games
Author: H. ChadwickPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5872410190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
The American Book Collector
Author: Cassell's Book of Sports and Pastimes
Author: Every Boy's Book of Sport and Pastime
Author: Hoffmann (Professor)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
Cassell's Complete Book of Sports and Pastimes
Author: Cassell & CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
The American Catalogue
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
American national trade bibliography.
The Sports and Pastimes of American Boys
Author: Henry ChadwickBaseball Before We Knew It
Author: David BlockPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803262553
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
It may be America?s game, but no one seems to know how or when baseball really started. Theories abound, myths proliferate, but reliable information has been in short supply?until now, when Baseball before We Knew It brings fresh new evidence of baseball?s origins into play. David Block looks into the early history of the game and of the 150-year-old debate about its beginnings. He tackles one stubborn misconception after another, debunking the enduring belief that baseball descended from the English game of rounders and revealing a surprising new explanation for the most notorious myth of all?the Abner Doubleday?Cooperstown story. ø Block?s book takes readers on an exhilarating journey through the centuries in search of clues to the evolution of our modern National Pastime. Among his startling discoveries is a set of long-forgotten baseball rules from the 1700s. Block evaluates the originality and historical significance of the Knickerbocker rules of 1845, revisits European studies on the ancestry of baseball which indicate that the game dates back hundreds, if not thousands of years, and assembles a detailed history of games and pastimes from the Middle Ages onward that contributed to baseball?s development. In its thoroughness and reach, and its extensive descriptive bibliography of early baseball sources, this book is a unique and invaluable resource?a comprehensive, reliable, and readable account of baseball before it was America?s game.
Indian Club Swinging and the Birth of Global Fitness
Author: Conor HeffernanPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350401633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Emerging in colonial India, the fitness fad that was Indian Club Swinging became a global exercise practice in the early 19th century. Used by physicians, soldiers, gymnasts, children and athletes alike, clubs were used to solve numerous social concerns and ills, and often prescribed to treat everything from depression to spinal abnormalities. This book provides a definitive account of the rise and spread of club swinging as it spread from India to Europe and America, asking why and how it became so popular. Discussing the global, commercial fitness culture of the 19th century, Indian Club Swinging and the Birth of Global Fitness explores how the popularity of this exercise reflected much deeper global and domestic concerns about body image, military preparation and education. Addressing broader questions about nationalism, gender, race and popular commerce across the British Empire, it highlights the origins of our modern transnational fitness culture and shows how it intersected with global and colonial understandings of health, medicine and education.