Baseball: The Early Years (Oxford Paperbacks) by Harold Seymour,Dorothy Seymour Mills,Dorothy Jane Mills

By Harold Seymour,Dorothy Seymour Mills,Dorothy Jane Mills

Now to be had in paperback, Harold Seymour and Dorothy Seymour turbines' Baseball: The Early Years recounts the real tale of the way baseball got here into being and the way it constructed right into a hugely equipped enterprise and social institution.

The Early Years, lines the expansion of baseball from the time of the 1st recorded ball online game at Valley Forge through the revolution until eventually the formation of the 2 present-day significant leagues in 1903. by means of investigating formerly unknown assets, the publication uncovers the genuine tale of the way baseball developed from a gentleman's novice activity of "well-bred play via well-laden dinner party tables" right into a specialist game the place mammoth leagues function less than their very own legislation. supplying numerous anecdotes and a wealth of latest details, the authors explode many loved myths, together with the only which claims that Abner Doubleday "invented" baseball in 1839. They describe the impact of baseball on American company, manners, morals, social associations, or even convey company, in addition to depicting the categories of guys who grew to become the 1st specialist ball avid gamers, membership vendors, and executives, together with Spalding, McGraw, Comiskey, and Connie Mack.

Note: On August 2, 2010, Oxford collage Press made public that it should credits Dorothy Seymour turbines as co-author of the 3 baseball histories formerly "authored" exclusively via her past due husband, Harold Seymour. The Seymours collaborated on Baseball: The Early Years (1960), Baseball: The Golden Age (1971) and Baseball: The People's Game (1991).

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