Baseball and Cricket: The Creation of American Team Sports, 1838-72 (Sport and Society) - Softcover

Kirsch, George B.

 
9780252074455: Baseball and Cricket: The Creation of American Team Sports, 1838-72 (Sport and Society)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0252074459 ISBN 13: 9780252074455
Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

How and why Americans chose baseball over its early rival, cricket, as the national pastime

George B. Kirsch takes us back to amateur playing fields around the country to re-create the excitement of the early matches, the players, clubs, and their fans. As a narrative history, Baseball and Cricket places the growing popularity of the two sports within the social context of mid-nineteenth-century American cities. The book's comparative analysis follows baseball's transition from a leisure sport to a commercialized, professional enterprise and offers the first complete discussion of the early American cricket clubs.

A volume in the series Sport and Society, edited by Benjamin G. Rader and Randy Roberts

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

George B. Kirsch is a professor of history at Manhattan College. He is the author of Baseball in Blue and Gray: the National Pastime during the Civil War, and editor of the Encyclopedia of Ethnicity and Sports in the U.S. and volumes three and four of Sports in North America: A Documentary History.

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Verlag
University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0252074459
ISBN 13 
9780252074455
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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