Title: Early professional baseball and the sporting press
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. "--
Subjects: Baseball, History, Public opinion, Social aspects, Sports, Public relations, Mass media and sports, Sports journalism, Baseball, history
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century