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A.G. Spalding and the rise of baseball : the promise of American sport / Peter Levine.
LIBRA GV865.S7 L48 1985
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levine, Peter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spalding, A. G. (Albert Goodwill).
- Spalding, A. G.
- Baseball players--United States--Biography.
- Baseball players.
- Entrepreneurship.
- Biography.
- United States.
- Entrepreneurship--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.
- Summary:
- A. G. Spalding was a key figure in the professionalization and commercialization of American sports. Co-founder of baseball's National League, owner of the Chicago White Stockings (later Cubs), and founder of a sporting goods business that made him a millionaire, Spalding not only willed baseball to be our national pastime but also contributed to making sport a significant part of American life. This biography captures the zest, flamboyance, and creativity of Albert Goodwell Spalding, a man of insatiable ego, a showman and entrepreneur, whose life illuminated the hopes and fears of 19th-century Americans. It is also a vivid evocation of the vanished world of 19th-century baseball, recreating a time when it was transformed from a game played on unkempt fields to modern style.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0195035526 :
- OCLC:
- 11211199
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