ISBN: 9780809027637 - autumn glory: baseball's first world series (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. No defects to pages. Binding slightly bent at spine. No marks or stains on cover. Near fine dust jacket; no tears or discoloration, very minimal creases. Measures 5.75 x 8.5 inches, 244 pages. An in-depth historical account of and commentary on American professional baseball's first World Series between the NL's Pittsburgh Pirates and AL's Boston Americans. From dust jacket: "before and even during the 1903 season, it seemed that baseball might succumb to the forces that had been splintering the sport for decades: owners' greed, players' rowdyism, fan' unrest. Yet baseball prevailed, and Masur tells the dramatic story of how it did so, in a country preoccupied with labor strife and big-business ruthlessness and anxious about the welfare of those crowding into cities such as Pittsburgh and Boston (which in themselves offered competing versions of the American dream). His colorful history of how the first World Series consolidated baseball's hold on the American imagination makes us see what one sportswriter meant when he wrote at the time, 'baseball is the melting pot at a boil, the most democratic sport in the world.' All in all, Masur believes, it still is.".…

hardcover. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.