A. G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball The Promise of American Sport

Name: A. G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball The Promise of American Sport
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ISBN: 9780195035520

ISBN-10: 0195035526

ISBN-13: 9780195035520

Edition: 1985

Authors: Peter Levine

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A. G. Spalding was a key figure in the professionalization and commercialization of American sports. Co-founder of baseball's National League, owner of the Chicago White Stockings (later Cubs), and founder of a sporting goods business that made him a millionaire, Spalding not only willed baseball to be our national pastime but also contributed to making sport a significant part of American life. This biography captures the zest, flamboyance, and creativity of Albert Goodwell Spalding, a man of insatiable ego, a showman and entrepreneur, whose life illuminated the hopes and fears of 19th-century Americans. It is also a vivid evocation of the vanished world of 19th-century baseball,…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/4/1985
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.50" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English