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9781586483111

Spalding's World Tour

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  • ISBN13:

    9781586483111

  • ISBN10:

    1586483110

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-04-03
  • Publisher: Public Affairs

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Author Biography

Mark Lamster is senior acquisitions editor at Princeton Architectural Press in New York. His writing on baseball, history, design, and architecture has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, the New York Times Book Review, Metropolis, I.D., and Architecture. Lamster lives in New York City and is an active member of the Society of American Baseball Research.

Table of Contents

Map of the Tour x
PROLOGUE: A GALAXY OF STARS xiii
1 BASEBALL'S BARNUM
1(32)
2 THE CHICAGO FAKE?
33(24)
3 GOING WEST
57(22)
4 A LAND OF MILK AND HONEY
79(16)
5 AT PLAY WITH THE KING OF THE CANNIBAL ISLANDS
95(20)
6 KIWIS AND KANGAROOS
115(36)
7 RICKSHAWS AND PYRAMIDS
151(32)
8 ON THE CONTINENT
183(30)
9 IN THE PRESENCE OF ROYALITY
213(24)
10 RETURN OF THE HEROES 237(14)
11 STUPIDITY, AVARICE, TREACHTERY 251(12)
EPILOGUE: THE GLOBE TROTTERS CLUB 263(22)
Appendix I: The Spalding Tourists 285(2)
Appendix II: Game Results of the Tour 287(6)
Notes 293(30)
Bibliography 323(6)
Acknowledgments 329(2)
Index 331

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