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

Sullivan, Dean A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803242379 ISBN 13: 9780803242371

Publisher: Bison Books, 1995

Synopsis

"Readers [get] a box seat at the game that became a national obsession." - "London Review of Books". "[Shows] just how compelling original documents can be when shaped into a narrative ...that includes tales of attitudes, alliances, and deceits, as well as the development of performances, rules, and equipment." - "Canadian Journal of the History of Sport". "Ancient myths are shattered and new facts are uncovered." - "USA Today Baseball Weekly". "Fascinating collection." - "Washington Post". "Stories from the early days that no serious baseball fan would want to miss." - "Chattanooga Times". 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). 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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Review:

"Stories from the early days that no serious baseball fan would want to miss."--Chattanooga Times--Chattanooga Times "Fascinating collection."--Washington Post--Washington Post "Ancient myths are shattered and new facts are uncovered."--USA Today Baseball Weekly--USA Today Baseball Weekly "[Shows] just how compelling original documents can be when shaped into a narrative . . . that includes tales of attitudes, alliances, and deceits, as well as the development of performances, rules, and equipment."--Canadian Journal of the History of Sport--Canadian Journal of the History of Sport "Readers [get] a box seat at the game that became a national obsession."--London Review of Books--London Review of Books

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bison Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0803242379
• ISBN 13: 9780803242371
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 326
• Editor: Sullivan Dean A.