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Baseball : the early years / by Harold Seymour.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seymour, Harold, 1910-1992.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball--United States--History.
- Baseball.
- Ball games--United States--History.
- Ball games.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (394 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1960.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- These two critically-acclaimed volumes mark the beginning of a monumental multi-volume study of baseball by the man whom Sports Illustrated has called ""the Edward Gibbon of baseball history."" Now available in paperback, Harold Seymour's The Early Years and The Golden Age together recount the true story of how baseball came into being and how it developed into a highly organized business and social institution.
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; PART ONE - THE AMATEUR ERA; PART TWO - BASEBALL BECOMES A BUSINESS; PART THREE - ORGANIZED BASEBALL; PART FOUR - MONOPOLY AT ITS APEX; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-802000-7
- 1-280-52299-2
- 9786610522996
- 1-4294-0145-1
- OCLC:
- 476006296
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