Live All You Can : Alexander Joy Cartwright and the Invention of Modern Baseball / Jay Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Jay, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartwright, Alexander Joy, 1820-1892.

Cartwright, Alexander Joy.

Baseball--United States.

Baseball--United States--History.

Baseball--History--United States--Biography.

Baseball.

Local Subjects:

Baseball--United States.

Baseball--United States--History.

Cartwright, Alexander Joy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (146 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Laying waste to the notion that Abner Doubleday established the modern game of baseball, acclaimed biographer Jay Martin makes a bold case for A. J. Cartwright (1820-1892), an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and avid ballplayer whose keen perception and restless spirit codified the rules of the sport and engineered its rapid spread throughout the country.Consulting Cartwright's personal correspondence and papers, Martin shows how this American archetype synthesized a number of elements from popular ballgames into the program, bylaws, and positions we find on the field today. After formalizing his blueprint, Cartwright worked tirelessly to promote baseball nationwide, appealing to both upper- and lower-class spectators and ballplayers and weaving a trail of influence across nineteenth-century America. Addressing the controversy that has roiled for years around the claims for Doubleday and Cartwright, Martin revisits the original arguments behind each camp and throws into sharp relief the competing ambitions of these figures during a time of aggressive westward expansion and unparalleled opportunities for individual reinvention. Martin's story of modern baseball not only offers a fascinating window into a thoroughly American phenomenon but also accesses a rare history of American ideals.

Contents:

Frontmatter

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

Appendix 1: Chronology of the Life of Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr.

Appendix 2: Did Cartwright "Really Invent" Baseball? Or, How Did the Game Evolve Before He Arrived? A Short Survey of Two Vexed Questions

Notes and References

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231519694

0231519699

OCLC:

818856341