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- Condition
- Like New
- Seller notes
- “The book is in great shape and autographed by the writer”
- Signed By
- Thomas Gilbert
- Era
- 2000s
- Signed
- Yes
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Inscribed
- Yes
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
- No
- ISBN
- 9781567926774
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- How Baseball Happened : Outrageous Lies Exposed! the True Story Revealed
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Publisher
- Godine Publisher, David R.
- Genre
- Sports & Recreation, History
- Topic
- Baseball / History, Business Aspects, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), General
- Item Weight
- 0 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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The fascinating, true, story of baseball's amateur origins. "Explores the conditions and factors that begat the game in the 19th century and turned it into the national pastime....A delightful look at a young nation creating a pastime that was love from the first crack of the bat."--Paul Dickson, The Wall Street Journal Baseball's true founders don't have plaques in Cooperstown. The founders were the hundreds of uncredited amateurs -- ordinary people -- who played without gloves, facemasks or performance incentives in the middle decades of the 19th century. Unlike today's pro athletes, they lived full lives outside of sports. They worked, built businesses and fought against the South in the Civil War. But that's not the way the story has been told. The wrongness of baseball history can be staggering. You may have heard that Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright invented baseball. Neither did. You may have been told that a club called the Knickerbockers played the first baseball game in 1846. They didn't. You have read that baseball's color line was uncrossed and unchallenged until Jackie Robinson in 1947. Nope. You have been told that the clean, corporate 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings were baseball's first professional club. Not true. They weren't the first professionals; they weren't all that clean, either. You may have heard Cooperstown, Hoboken, or New York City called the birthplace of baseball, but not Brooklyn. Yet Brooklyn was the home of baseball's first fans, the first ballpark, the first statistics--and modern pitching. Baseball was originally supposed to be played, not watched. This changed when crowds began to show up at games in Brooklyn in the late 1850s. We fans weren't invited to the party; we crashed it. Professionalism wasn't part of the plan either, but when an 1858 Brooklyn versus New York City series accidentally proved that people would pay to see a game, the writing was on the outfield wall. When the first professional league was formed in 1871, baseball was already a fully formed modern sport with championships, media coverage, and famous stars. Professional baseball invented an organization, but not the sport itself. Baseball's amazing amateurs had already done that. Thomas W. Gilbert's history is for baseball fans and anyone fascinating by history, American culture, and how great things began.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Godine Publisher, David R.
ISBN-10
1567926770
ISBN-13
9781567926774
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16038376649
Product Key Features
Publication Year
2020
Topic
Baseball / History, Business Aspects, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), General
Book Title
How Baseball Happened : Outrageous Lies Exposed! the True Story Revealed
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Sports & Recreation, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
0 Oz
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"In How Baseball Happened , Thomas W. Gilbert brilliantly gathers hidden treasure long buried in newspaper accounts and diaries to present a rich and nuanced picture of American baseball as it grew and blossomed. Along the way, he explodes myths that have long shaped our understanding of this great game. This is a tart and funny trip through the raucous and aspiring culture that shaped baseball, with its volunteer firefighters, urban professionals, bloodstained butchers, and brawling gamblers."--Edward Achorn, author of Every Drop of Blood , The Summer of Beer and Whiskey , and Fifty-nine in '84 .
Lccn
2020-019007
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
796.3570973
Lc Classification Number
Gv863.A1g5754 2020
Table of Content
Introduction by John Thorn Amateur Era Timeline Chapter One: The Wrongness of Baseball History Chapter Two: Wasps in the Attic Chapter Three: Escape from the City Chapter Four: What Makes a River Chapter Five: It Happened in Brooklyn Chapter Six: A Ballplayer's Tale Chapter Seven: Philadelphia Stories Chapter Eight: Amateur Hour Chapter Nine: Traveling Team Afterword Appendix 1: Game Versus Sport Appendix 2: What happened to . . . Bibliography Photo Credits, Notes Index
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