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Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball
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Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball Paperback - 2009

by Goldstein, Warren Jay

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  • Title Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball
  • Author Goldstein, Warren Jay
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: twent
  • Condition New
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.
  • Date 2009-03-11
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ING9780801475085
  • ISBN 9780801475085 / 0801475082
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 0.6 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 1.52 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Baseball - United States - History - 19th
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008049987
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.357

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From the publisher

In the late 1850s organized baseball was a club-based fraternal sport thriving in the cultures of respectable artisans, clerks and shopkeepers, and middle-class sportsmen. Two decades later it had become an entertainment business run by owners and managers, depending on gate receipts and the increasingly disciplined labor of skilled player-employees. Playing for Keeps is an insightful, in-depth account of the game that became America's premier spectator sport for nearly a century.

Reconstructing the culture and experience of early baseball through a careful reading of the sporting press, baseball guides, and the correspondence of the player-manager Harry Wright, Warren Goldstein discovers the origins of many modern controversies during the game's earliest decades.

The 20th Anniversary Edition of Goldstein's classic includes information about the changes that have occurred in the history of the sport since the 1980s and an account of his experience as a scholarly consultant during the production of Ken Burns's Baseball.

About the author

Warren Goldstein is Professor of History and Chair of the History Department in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Hartford. He is the author of William Sloane Coffin, Jr.: A Holy Impatience and coauthor (with Elliott Gorn) of A Brief History of American Sports.

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