America's National Game - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook America's National Game write by Albert Goodwill Spalding. This book was released on 1911. America's National Game available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is Albert Spaldings work of "historic facts concerning the beginning, evolution, development and popularity of base ball, with personal reminiscences of its vicissitudes, its victories and its votaries." It is one of the defining books in the early formative years of modern baseball.
Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide for ...
Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide for ... - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide for ... write by . This book was released on 1896. Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide for ... available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Ambassadors in Pinstripes
Ambassadors in Pinstripes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ambassadors in Pinstripes write by Thomas W. Zeiler. This book was released on 2006-09-22. Ambassadors in Pinstripes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Inspired and led by sporting magnate Albert Goodwill Spalding, two teams of baseball players circled the globe for six months in 1888-1889 competing in such far away destinations as Australia, Sri Lanka and Egypt. These players, however, represented much more than mere pleasure-seekers. In this lively narrative, Zeiler explores the ways in which the Spalding World Baseball Tour drew on elements of cultural diplomacy to inject American values and power into the international arena. Through his chronicle of baseball history, games, and experiences, Zeiler explores expressions of imperial dreams through globalization's instruments of free enterprise, webs of modern communication and transport, cultural ordering of races and societies, and a strident nationalism that galvanized notions of American uniqueness. Spalding linked baseball to a U.S. presence overseas, viewing the world as a market ripe for the infusion of American ideas, products and energy. Through globalization during the Gilded Age, he and other Americans penetrated the globe and laid the foundation for an empire formally acquired just a decade after their tour.
Baseball Gold
Baseball Gold - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Baseball Gold write by Dan Schlossberg. This book was released on 2007-04-01. Baseball Gold available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Even the most ardent baseball fan will be amazed at the quirks, quips, and comments in Baseball Gold. Consisting entirely of bits and pieces of baseball’s offbeat history, this volume covers teams and a myriad of players, owners, managers, and broadcasters—from their exploits on the field to those behind clubhouse doors. It can even be picked up in the middle and read backward—one nugget at a time.
Baseball in Blue and Gray
Baseball in Blue and Gray - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Baseball in Blue and Gray write by George B. Kirsch. This book was released on 2013-10-24. Baseball in Blue and Gray available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the Civil War, Americans from homefront to battlefront played baseball as never before. While soldiers slaughtered each other over the country's fate, players and fans struggled over the form of the national pastime. George Kirsch gives us a color commentary of the growth and transformation of baseball during the Civil War. He shows that the game was a vital part of the lives of many a soldier and civilian--and that baseball's popularity had everything to do with surging American nationalism. By 1860, baseball was poised to emerge as the American sport. Clubs in northeastern and a few southern cities played various forms of the game. Newspapers published statistics, and governing bodies set rules. But the Civil War years proved crucial in securing the game's place in the American heart. Soldiers with bats in their rucksacks spread baseball to training camps, war prisons, and even front lines. As nationalist fervor heightened, baseball became patriotic. Fans honored it with the title of national pastime. War metaphors were commonplace in sports reporting, and charity games were scheduled. Decades later, Union general Abner Doubleday would be credited (wrongly) with baseball's invention. The Civil War period also saw key developments in the sport itself, including the spread of the New York-style of play, the advent of revised pitching rules, and the growth of commercialism. Kirsch recounts vivid stories of great players and describes soldiers playing ball to relieve boredom. He introduces entrepreneurs who preached the gospel of baseball, boosted female attendance, and found new ways to make money. We witness bitterly contested championships that enthralled whole cities. We watch African Americans embracing baseball despite official exclusion. And we see legends spring from the pens of early sportswriters. Rich with anecdotes and surprising facts, this narrative of baseball's coming-of-age reveals the remarkable extent to which America's national pastime is bound up with the country's defining event.
