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Live all you can : Alexander Joy Cartwright and the invention of modern baseball / Jay Martin.
LIBRA GV865.C32 M37 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martin, Jay.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cartwright, Alexander Joy, 1820-1892.
- Cartwright, Alexander Joy.
- Baseball--United States--Biography.
- Baseball.
- Baseball--United States--History.
- United States.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 155 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- The birth of the father
- The dream
- Cartwright, dreaming again
- Across the plains
- Visions and revisions
- Paradise bound
- Paradise found
- The last gasp of the great sailing ships
- Missionary baseball
- Starting all over again : it's gonna be rough
- but we're gonna make it
- The new fire chief
- Freemasonry comes to Hawaii
- A gift from the sea
- and a loss
- Back to baseball
- DeWitt and his brothers
- Cartwright & Co., Ltd.
- Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr., American
- The social whirl
- Advisor to the queen
- Deaths and new life
- King sugar
- Baseball on the plantations
- Spalding's world tour
- first stop, Hawaii
- The final dissolving
- Cartwright's second life : myth into history.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231147941
- 0231147945
- 9780231519694
- 0231519699
- OCLC:
- 286517517
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