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9781589792548

Old Time Baseball: America's Pastime in the Gilded Age

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    9781589792548

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    1589792548

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-12-30
  • Publisher: Natl Book Network
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Summary

"In this history of the sport, Harvey Frommer captures the flavor, smell, and craziness of the early days of baseball, creating vivid portraits of the colorful personalities who shaped the game. Starting with its invention in 1842 by the descendant of a British sea captain (and not Abner Doubleday), Frommer traces the development of the sport from the first games on a vacant lot at 27th and Madison in New York to the turn of the century, when the National League was emerging as the preeminent forum for truly professional baseball."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Harvey Frommer is professor emeritus of the City University of New York and professor at Dartmouth College, where he teaches oral history and sports journalism.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
1 The March of Baseball Time 1(24)
A day-by-day, month-by-month, year-by-year, decade-by-decade look at baseball in the 19th century from the 1834 first book of instructions through Alexander Cartwright's game, players, ballparks, major characters and into the new century.
2 Roots 25(34)
Debunking one more time the Doubleday myth and giving credit to Alexander Cartwright as the "Father of Modern Baseball." The game evolves. Baseball and the Civil War, the Cincinnati Red Stockings—the first "professional team," the National Association, the birth of the National League.
3 The Backdrop 59(28)
All matter of unusual one-of-a-kind facts and stories about ballparks, rules, umpires, women in baseball, equipment and uniforms, bats, the baseball.
4 The National League and Its Competitors 87(32)
"Father of the National League" William Hulbert. The first season of 1876. The challengers: the American Association, Union Association, the Brotherhood and the Players League, postseason baseball, milestone moments on the field, the coming of the new American League.
5 Tintypes: A Sampler 119(44)
Some of the great players and memorable characters of that time: Cap Anson, Dan Brouthers, Jesse Burkett, Fred Clarke, John Clarkson, Jimmy Collins, Roger Connor, Candy Cummings, Ed Delahanty, Hugh Duffy, Buck Ewing, Pud Galvin, Clark Griffith, Billy Hamilton, Hughie Jennings, Tim Keefe, "Wee Willie" Keeler, Joe Kelley, King Kelly, John McGraw, John Alexander "King Bid" McPhee, Kid Nichols, Jim O'Rourke, Charley Radbourn, Wilbert Robinson, Amos Rusie, Albert Spalding, Bobby Wallace, John Montgomery Ward, George Wright, Harry Wright, Cy Young.
6 The Great Teams 163(14)
A sampler of some of the best of the best: the Chicago White Stockings, the Providence Grays, the New York Giants, the St. Louis Browns, the Baltimore Orioles, the Boston Beaneaters.
Epilogue 177(2)
Baseball's past is as real as its present, always close to the surface, always worth celebrating.
Appendixes 179(10)
For the record: National League pennant winners. Home run champions. Batting champions. Base-stealing champions. Pitching leaders. 1890's leaders. National Association of Base Ball Players champions. Home run record evolution.
About the Author 189

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