Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908 - Softcover

Sullivan, Dean A.

 
9780803292444: Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908

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This compilation of 120 primary writings documents baseball’s first century, from a loosely organized village social event to the arrival of the National League. Collecting from a wide range of sources—including newspaper accounts, letters, folk poetry, songs, and annual guides—Dean A. Sullivan of Fairfax, Virginia, progresses chronologically from the earliest known baseball reference (1825) to the creation of the Doubleday Myth (1908).

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Benjamin G. Rader, author of Baseball: A History of America’s Game is a professor of history at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

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This collections of 120 documents illuminates the beginnings of baseball as it evolved from a casual, loosely organized village social event before the Civil War to the national, formally organized, and thoroughly capitalist and professional undertaking of the twentieth century.

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ISBN 10:  0803242379 ISBN 13:  9780803242371
Verlag: Bison Books, 1995
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