Playing for Keeps A History of Early Baseball / Warren Goldstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldstein, Warren.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baseball--United States--History--19th century.

Baseball.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 p.)

Edition:

20th anniversary ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the late 1850s, organized baseball was a club-based fraternal sport thriving in the cultures of respectable artisans, clerks and shopkeepers, and middle-class sportsmen. Two decades later it had become an entertainment business run by owners and managers, depending on gate receipts and the increasingly disciplined labor of skilled player-employees. Playing for Keeps is an insightful, in-depth account of the game that became America's premier spectator sport for nearly a century.Reconstructing the culture and experience of early baseball through a careful reading of the sporting press, baseball guides, and the correspondence of the player-manager Harry Wright, Warren Goldstein discovers the origins of many modern controversies during the game's earliest decades.The 20th Anniversary Edition of Goldstein's classic includes information about the changes that have occurred in the history of the sport since the 1980s and an account of his experience as a scholarly consultant during the production of Ken Burns's Baseball.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface to the 20th Anniversary Edition

Acknowledgments

Prologue

I. The Culture of Organized Baseball, 1857-1866

1. The Base Ball Fraternity

2. Excitement and Self-Control

3. The "Manly Pastime"

II. Amateurs into Professionals, 1866-1876

4. Growth, Division, and "Disorder"

5. "Revolving" and Professionalism

6. The National Game

7. Amateurs in Rebellion

8. Professional Leagues and the Baseball Workplace

Epilogue: Playing for Keeps

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-180) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780801471469

080147146X

9780801471476

0801471478

OCLC:

887802920