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Playing for Keeps

A History of Early Baseball

Playing for Keeps( )
Author: Goldstein, Warren Jay
ISBN:978-0-8014-1829-7
Publication Date:Nov 1989
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $58.95
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:208
Detailed Subjects: Sports & Recreation / Baseball / History
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.12 x 9.25 x 0.88 Inches
Book Weight:2 Pounds



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