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