Playing for Keeps A History of Early Baseball

Name: Playing for Keeps A History of Early Baseball
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ISBN: 9780801475085

ISBN-10: 0801475082

ISBN-13: 9780801475085

Edition: 20th 2014

Authors: Warren Jay Goldstein

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List price: $20.95
Edition: 20th
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 3/11/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.49" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface to the 20th Anniversary Edition


Acknowledgments


Prologue


Histories of the Game


A Note on Method


Origins



The Culture of Organized Baseball, 1857-1866



The Base Ball Fraternity


Rites of Play


"Hard Work and Victory"


Players and Workers


Cultural Antecedents



Excitement and Self-Control


Dangerous Excitement


Agents of Control: Rules, Umpires, and Women


The Problem of Competition



The "Manly Pastime"


Men and Boys


The Fly Rule


Ethics of the Game: Reform vs. Custom


Fruits of Reform: "Ambitious Rivalries and Selfish Victories"



Amateurs into Professionals, 1866-1876



Growth, Division, and "Disorder"


The Coming of the "Good Old Days"


Growth and Fragmentation


Cultural Conflict and Division



"Revolving" and Professionalism


The Decline of the National Association


Baseball Capital and Baseball Labor



The National Game


Home and Away


The Birth of the Cincinnati Red Stockings


Uniform Identities


Management, Triumph, and Defeat: The Red Stockings of 1869 and 1870



Amateurs in Rebellion


The Amateurist Critique of Professional Baseball


"Restoring" the Pastime



Professional Leagues and the Baseball Workplace


"Baseball Is Business Now"


The Origins of Baseball Statistics


The National League


Epilogue: Playing for Keeps


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index