Baseball: The Golden Age

AvHarold Seymour

Häftad, Engelska, 1990

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Following the story begun in Baseball: The Early Years, Harold Seymour explores the glorious and grevious era when the game truly captured the American imagination with legendary figures like Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, but also appalled fans with startling scandals. The Golden Age begins with the formation of the two major leagues in 1903, and describes how the organization of the professional game improved from an unwieldy three-man commission to the strong rule of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Seymour depicts the ways in which play on the field developed from the low-scoring, pitcher-dominated game of the `dead ball' era before the First World War to the high scores of the `lively ball' era of the 1920s.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1990-01-04
Mått:150 x 230 x 32 mm
Vikt:739 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:512
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780195059137

Utforska kategorier

Bollsport inom Sport, fritid och hobby
Sociala och etiska frågor inom Samhälle och politik
Historia inom Historia och arkeologi

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Harold Seymour is a historian and free-lance writer

Recensioner i media

"Seymour's books remain the most entertaining and informative histories about baseball's position in American culture."--H. Gehrig Coleman, University of TexasPraise for Volume II:"Will grip every American who has invested part of his youth and dreams in the sport, and it will inform everyone else who is interested in an American phenomenon as native as apple pie."--The New York Times"Noteworthy for its thoroughness and for the way its author relates the sport to American life....Seymour has an eye for humorous detail."--Publishers Weekly"[A] splendidly researched baseball history."--Business Week"Sports historians will welcome [this volume] as a contribution to our growing knowledge of American baseball."--Journal of American History"With devastating documentation [Seymour] portrays the contrast between the beauty of the game on the field and widespread dishonesty off it."--The New Republic