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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9780801471476

Content: 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface to the 20th Anniversary Edition -- , Acknowledgments -- , Prologue -- , I. The Culture of Organized Baseball, 1857-1866 -- , 1. The Base Ball Fraternity -- , 2. Excitement and Self-Control -- , 3. The "Manly Pastime" -- , II. Amateurs into Professionals, 1866-1876 -- , 4. Growth, Division, and "Disorder" -- , 5. "Revolving" and Professionalism -- , 6. The National Game -- , 7. Amateurs in Rebellion -- , 8. Professional Leagues and the Baseball Workplace -- , Epilogue: Playing for Keeps -- , Notes -- , Selected Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7591/9780801471476

URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801471476

URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801471476

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 184 pages)

Edition: Twentieth anniversary edition

Edition: Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction

ISBN: 0801471478 , 0801475082 , 9780801471476 , 9780801475085

Series Statement: Cornell paperbacks

Content: ""Playing for Keeps""; ""Contents""; ""Preface to the 20th Anniversary Edition""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Prologue""; ""Histories of the Game""; ""A Note on Method""; ""Origins""; ""I. The Culture of Organized Baseball, 1857�1866""; ""1. The Base Ball Fraternity""; ""Rites of Play""; ""“Hard Work and Victory�""; ""Players and Workers""; ""Cultural Antecedents""; ""2. Excitement and Self-Control""; ""Dangerous Excitement""; ""Agents of Control: Rules, Umpires, and Women""; ""The Problem of Competition""; ""3. The “Manly Pastime�""; ""Men and Boys""; ""The Fly Rule

Content: ""Ethics of the Game: Reform vs. Custom""""Fruits of Reform: “Ambitious Rivalries andSelfish Victories�""; ""II. Amateurs into Professionals, 1866�1876""; ""4. Growth, Division, and “Disorder�""; ""The Coming of the “Good Old Days�""; ""Growth and Fragmentation""; ""Cultural Conflict and Division""; ""5. “Revolving� and Professionalism""; ""The Decline of the National Association""; ""Baseball Capital and Baseball Labor""; ""6. The National Game""; ""Home and Away""; ""The Birth of the Cincinnati Red Stockings""; ""Uniform Identities

Content: ""Management, Triumph, and Defeat: The RedStockings of 1869 and 1870""""7. Amateurs in Rebellion""; ""The Amateurist Critique of Professional Baseball""; ""“Restoring� the Pastime""; ""8. 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

Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-180) and index , Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL , Electronic reproduction , Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. , English

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Goldstein, Warren Playing for keeps

Language: English

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