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Total Pages : 422 pages
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Download or read book Porter's Spirit of the Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Block
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803262553
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Baseball Before We Knew It written by David Block and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It may be America?s game, but no one seems to know how or when baseball really started. Theories abound, myths proliferate, but reliable information has been in short supply?until now, when Baseball before We Knew It brings fresh new evidence of baseball?s origins into play. David Block looks into the early history of the game and of the 150-year-old debate about its beginnings. He tackles one stubborn misconception after another, debunking the enduring belief that baseball descended from the English game of rounders and revealing a surprising new explanation for the most notorious myth of all?the Abner Doubleday?Cooperstown story. ø Block?s book takes readers on an exhilarating journey through the centuries in search of clues to the evolution of our modern National Pastime. Among his startling discoveries is a set of long-forgotten baseball rules from the 1700s. Block evaluates the originality and historical significance of the Knickerbocker rules of 1845, revisits European studies on the ancestry of baseball which indicate that the game dates back hundreds, if not thousands of years, and assembles a detailed history of games and pastimes from the Middle Ages onward that contributed to baseball?s development. In its thoroughness and reach, and its extensive descriptive bibliography of early baseball sources, this book is a unique and invaluable resource?a comprehensive, reliable, and readable account of baseball before it was America?s game.
Author : Norris Wilson Yates
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Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)
Download or read book William T. Porter and the Spirit of the Times written by Norris Wilson Yates and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Stott
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801897955
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Jolly Fellows written by Richard Stott and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-09-21 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Jolly fellows,” a term that gained currency in the nineteenth century, referred to those men whose more colorful antics included brawling, heavy drinking, gambling, and playing pranks. Reforms, especially the temperance movement, stigmatized such behavior, but pockets of jolly fellowship continued to flourish throughout the country. Richard Stott scrutinizes and analyzes this behavior to appreciate its origins and meaning. Stott finds that male behavior could be strikingly similar in diverse locales, from taverns and boardinghouses to college campuses and sporting events. He explores the permissive attitudes that thrived in such male domains as the streets of New York City, California during the gold rush, and the Pennsylvania oil fields, arguing that such places had an important influence on American society and culture. Stott recounts how the cattle and mining towns of the American West emerged as centers of resistance to Victorian propriety. It was here that unrestrained male behavior lasted the longest, before being replaced with a new convention that equated manliness with sobriety and self-control. Even as the number of jolly fellows dwindled, jolly themes flowed into American popular culture through minstrelsy, dime novels, and comic strips. Jolly Fellows proposes a new interpretation of nineteenth-century American culture and society and will inform future work on masculinity during this period.
Author : Thomas Aiello
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1610756703
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)
Download or read book New Orleans Sports written by Thomas Aiello and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Orleans has long been a city fixated on its own history and culture. Founded in 1718 by the French, transferred to the Spanish in the 1763 Treaty of Paris, and sold to the United States in 1803, the city’s culture, law, architecture, food, music, and language share the influence of all three countries. This cultural mélange also manifests in the city’s approach to sport, where each game is steeped in the city’s history. Tracing that history from the early nineteenth century to the present, while also surveying the state of the city’s sports historiography, New Orleans Sports places sport in the context of race relations, politics, and civic and business development to expand that historiography—currently dominated by a text that stops at 1900—into the twentieth century, offering a modern examination of sports in the city.
Author : Katherine C. Mooney
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674419561
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Race Horse Men written by Katherine C. Mooney and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katherine C. Mooney recaptures the sights, sensations, and illusions of America's first mass spectator sport. Her central characters are not the elite white owners of slaves and thoroughbreds but the black jockeys, grooms, and horse trainers who called themselves race horse men and made the racetrack run--until Jim Crow drove them from their jobs.
Author : M. L. Biscotti
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538103915
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book American Sporting Periodicals written by M. L. Biscotti and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive listing of American field sports periodicals, beginning in 1829. It includes information such as the magazine’s title, years of publication, frequency of issue, publisher, and general content. American Sporting Periodicals is a valuable reference tool for collectors and researchers of field sports in America.
Author : Peter Morris,
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476603782
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Base Ball Founders written by Peter Morris, and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-07-20 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book completes the series of histories of the clubs and players responsible for making baseball the national pastime that began with Base Ball Pioneers, 1850–1870 (McFarland 2011). Forty clubs and hundreds of pioneer players from the first hotbeds of New York City, Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts are profiled by leading experts on baseball’s early years. The subjects include legendary clubs such as the Knickerbockers of New York, the Eckfords and Atlantics of Brooklyn, the Athletics of Philadelphia, and Harvard’s first baseball clubs, and fabled players like Jim Creighton, Dickey Pearce, and Daniel Adams, but space is also given to less well remembered clubs such as the Champion Club of Jersey City and the Cummaquids of Barnstable, Massachusetts. What united all of these founders of the game was that their love of baseball during its earliest years helped to make it the national pastime.
Author : Dreyfus Hermanos y Cia
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Total Pages : 356 pages
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Download or read book Las glorias de los señores D.J. Aranibar i D.E. Althaus written by Dreyfus Hermanos y Cia and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Thorn
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147662139X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, Vol. 9 written by John Thorn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BACK ISSUE Base Ball is a peer-reviewed book series published annually. Offering the best in original research and analysis, it promotes study of baseball’s early history, from its protoball roots to 1920, and its rise to prominence within American popular culture. Prior to Volume 10, Base Ball was published as Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game. This is a back issue of that journal.
Author : Stephanie LeMenager
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803229496
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Manifest and Other Destinies written by Stephanie LeMenager and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manifest and Other Destinies critiques Manifest Destiny?s exclusive claim as an explanatory national story in order to rethink the meaning and boundaries of the West and of the United States? national identity. Stephanie LeMenager considers the American West before it became a trusted symbol of U.S. national character or a distinct literary region in the later nineteenth century, back when the West was undeniably many wests, defined by international economic networks linking diverse territories and peoples from the Caribbean to the Pacific coast. Many nineteenth-century novelists, explorers, ideologues, and humorists imagined the United States? destiny in what now seem unfamiliar terms, conceiving of geopolitical configurations or possible worlds at odds with the land hunger and ?providential? mission most clearly associated with Manifest Destiny. Manifest and Other Destinies draws from an archive of this literature and rhetoric to offer a creative rereading of national and regional borders. LeMenager addresses both canonical and lesser-known U.S. writers who shared an interest in western environments that resisted settlement, including deserts, rivers, and oceans, and who used these challenging places to invent a postwestern cultural criticism in the nineteenth century. Le Menager highlights the doubts and self-reckonings that developed alongside expansionist fervor and predicted contemporary concerns about the loss of cultural and human values to an emerging global order. In Manifest and Other Destinies, the American West offers the United States its first encounter with worlds at once local and international, worlds that, as time has proven, could never be entirely subordinated to the nation?s imperial desire.
Author : John Dizikes
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826214478
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Sportsmen and Gamesmen written by John Dizikes and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Author : Bill Felber
Publisher : SABR, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1933599421
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (335 download)
Download or read book Inventing Baseball written by Bill Felber and published by SABR, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A project of SABR's Nineteenth Century Committee, INVENTING BASEBALL brings to life the greatest games to be played in the game's early years. From the "prisoner of war" game that took place among captive Union soldiers during the Civil War, to the first intercollegiate game (Amherst versus Williams), to the first professional no-hitter, the games in this volume span 1833–1900 and detail the athletic exploits of such players as Cap Anson, Moses "Fleetwood" Walker, Charlie Comiskey, Mike "King" Kelly, and John Montgomery Ward.
Author : R. Terry Furst
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786469854
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Early Professional Baseball and the Sporting Press written by R. Terry Furst and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book analyzes the process by which the collective image of professional baseball was formed. It traces both the negation and the affirmation of ideas in the sports press that would impede or promote the growth of baseball from a recreational pastime to a team sport spectacle in the mid-19th century. The American collective image grew as a result of sports reportage, conversations about baseball in social and work groupings, game attendance (and changing values toward work and play), and reports of gambling. Newspaper editorials and news stories and letters to the editor are studied as to shifting and complex and inter-related sentiments toward playing baseball. Much of this interactive complex was influenced by the English sports ideal and newly formed attitudes toward recreation. Above all, the sports press was the primary shaper of the image of professional baseball.
Author : William J. Ryczek
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786482832
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Baseball’s First Inning written by William J. Ryczek and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-29 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of America’s pastime describes the evolution of baseball from early bat and ball games to its growth and acceptance in different regions of the country. Such New York clubs as the Atlantics, Excelsiors and Mutuals are a primary focus, serving as examples of how the sport became more sophisticated and popular. The author compares theories about many of baseball’s “inventors,” exploring the often fascinating stories of several of baseball’s oldest founding myths. The impact of the Civil War on the sport is discussed and baseball’s unsteady path to becoming America’s national game is analyzed at length.
Author : Kenneth T. Jackson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300182570
Total Pages : 4282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of New York City written by Kenneth T. Jackson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 4282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering an exhaustive range of information about the five boroughs, the first edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City was a success by every measure, earning worldwide acclaim and several awards for reference excellence, and selling out its first printing before it was officially published. But much has changed since the volume first appeared in 1995: the World Trade Center no longer dominates the skyline, a billionaire businessman has become an unlikely three-term mayor, and urban regeneration—Chelsea Piers, the High Line, DUMBO, Williamsburg, the South Bronx, the Lower East Side—has become commonplace. To reflect such innovation and change, this definitive, one-volume resource on the city has been completely revised and expanded. The revised edition includes 800 new entries that help complete the story of New York: from Air Train to E-ZPass, from September 11 to public order. The new material includes broader coverage of subject areas previously underserved as well as new maps and illustrations. Virtually all existing entries—spanning architecture, politics, business, sports, the arts, and more—have been updated to reflect the impact of the past two decades. The more than 5,000 alphabetical entries and 700 illustrations of the second edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City convey the richness and diversity of its subject in great breadth and detail, and will continue to serve as an indispensable tool for everyone who has even a passing interest in the American metropolis.
Author : Francis Brinley
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Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Life of William T. Porter written by Francis Brinley and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
