Playing for keeps
Subtitle: a history of early baseball
By: Warren Goldstein.
Edition: 20th anniversary ed.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780801475085
Subjects: Baseball -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Description: "Playing for Keeps is an insightful, in-depth account of the game that became America's premier spectator sport for nearly a century. Reconstructing the culture and experience of early baseball through a careful reading of the sporting press, baseball guides, and the correspondence of the player-manager Harry Wright, Warren Goldstein discovers the origins of many modern controversies during the game's earliest decades. The 20th Anniversary Edition of Goldstein's classic includes information about the changes that have occurred in the history of the sport since the 1980s and an account of his experience as a scholarly consultant during the production of Ken Burns's Baseball."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.