Author: Peter Hamilton Myers
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Author: Reginald De Koven
Publisher:
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Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Author: Herman Knickerbocker Vielé
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Author: Linden J. DeBie
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Inspired by Washington Irving’s legendary tale Rip Van Winkle, Rip’s Knickerbockers takes a spin in a new and unexpected direction. It’s the same old Rip Van Winkle, but this time his long nap finds him in an entirely unfamiliar world where everything seems upside down. The novel contains wonderful references to pre-colonial and post-colonial America. But it is the unexpected that must be expected in this light, humorous, and entertaining novel.

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 506

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Author: Washington Irving
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455607099
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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This is a reissue of the two-volume satire subtitled "A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty." Published to popular acclaim in 1809, this work, considered the first important contribution to American comic literature, was Washington Irvingï¿1/2s first book. The second volume contains seven chapters on the reign of Peter Stuyvesant and his troubles with the Amphyctionic Council. The book also records the gallant achievements of Peter the Headstrong and his problems with the British, as well as the eventual fall of the Dutch Dynasty.

Author: Harold Seymour
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199839174
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 397

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Now available in paperback, Harold Seymour and Dorothy Seymour Mills' Baseball: The Early Years recounts the true story of how baseball came into being and how it developed into a highly organized business and social institution. The Early Years, traces the growth of baseball from the time of the first recorded ball game at Valley Forge during the revolution until the formation of the two present-day major leagues in 1903. By investigating previously unknown sources, the book uncovers the real story of how baseball evolved from a gentleman's amateur sport of "well-bred play followed by well-laden banquet tables" into a professional sport where big leagues operate under their own laws. Offering countless anecdotes and a wealth of new information, the authors explode many cherished myths, including the one which claims that Abner Doubleday "invented" baseball in 1839. They describe the influence of baseball on American business, manners, morals, social institutions, and even show business, as well as depicting the types of men who became the first professional ball players, club owners, and managers, including Spalding, McGraw, Comiskey, and Connie Mack. Note: On August 2, 2010, Oxford University Press made public that it would credit Dorothy Seymour Mills as co-author of the three baseball histories previously "authored" solely by her late husband, Harold Seymour. The Seymours collaborated on Baseball: The Early Years (1960), Baseball: The Golden Age (1971) and Baseball: The People's Game (1991).

Author: Phil Berger
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
ISBN: 9781568580081
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Author: R. Terry Furst
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476606250
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 183

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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.

Author: Charles Fenno Hoffman
Publisher:
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 758

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