Research Catalog

Title

Baseball and cricket : the creation of American team sports, 1838-72 / George B. Kirsch.

Author

Kirsch, George B.

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2007.

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Details

Description

xiv, 277 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

'Baseball and Cricket' places the growing popularity of the two sports within the social context of mid 19th century American cities. The text follows baseball's transition from a leisure sport to a commercialised, professional enterprise and offers a discussion of the early American cricket clubs.

Uniform Title

Creation of American team sports

Alternative Title

• Creation of American team sports
• Creation of American team sports : baseball and cricket, 1838-72

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Baseball > United States > History > 19th century
• Cricket > United States > History > 19th century
• Sports > United States > History > 19th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The rise of modern ball games -- Early American cricket -- The emergence of baseball -- Civil War interlude -- A national game -- Players -- Clubs -- Spectators -- Baseball's boom and cricket's survival -- Baseball in transition.

ISBN

• 9780252074455 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0252074459 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006027322

OCLC

• 71005876
• SCSB-11703794

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library