Early professional baseball and the sporting press
Subtitle: shaping the image of the game
By: R. Terry Furst
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9780786469857
Subjects: Baseball; History; Public opinion; Social aspects; Sports; Public relations; Mass media and sports
Description: " Analyzed here is the process by which the collective image of professional baseball was formed. It traces both the negation and the affirmation of ideas in the sports press that would impede or promote the growth of baseball from a recreational pastime to a team sport spectacle in the mid-19th century. "--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-165) and index.