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Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball, 20th Anniversary Edition
Playing for Keeps A History of Early Baseball 20th Anniversary Edition
Author: Warren Goldstein
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-emplo...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801475085
ISBN-10: 0801475082
Pages: 184
Edition: 20 Anv
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Publisher: Cornell University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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