Early professional baseball and the sporting press: shaping the image of the game
Auteur :
Furst, R. Terry
Éditeur :
McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN :
9780786469857
Date de publication :
2 avr. 2014
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 0,9 cm
Poids :
254 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Analyses 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.