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

Sullivan, Dean A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803292449 ISBN 13: 9780803292444

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1997

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. 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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About the Author

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

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803292449
• ISBN 13: 9780803292444
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 326
• Editor: Sullivan Dean A.