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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782213203321

Autore

Seymour Harold

Titolo

Baseball : the golden age / / Harold Seymour

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1971

©1971

ISBN

0-19-987900-1

1-280-60507-3

9786610605071

0-19-802012-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (517 p.)

Disciplina

796.357

Soggetti

Baseball - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; PART ONE: THE RULE OF THE TRIUMVIRS; PART TWO: HEROES AND HEROICS; PART THREE: A TRYING TIME; PART FOUR: THE TARNISHED IMAGE; PART FIVE: THE CZARIST REGIME; Appendix; Bibliographical Note; Index

Sommario/riassunto

These two critically-acclaimed volumes mark the beginning of a monumental multi-volume study of baseball by the man whom Sports Illustrated has called ""the Edward Gibbon of baseball history."" Now available in paperback, Harold Seymour's The Early Years and The Golden Age together recount the true story of how baseball came into being and how it developed into a highly organized business and social institution. The first volume, The Early Years , traces the growth of baseball from the time of the first recorded ball game at Valley Forge during the revolution until the formation of the two pre