By Warren Goldstein
In the overdue 1850s, prepared baseball was once a club-based fraternal activity thriving within the cultures of good artisans, clerks and shopkeepers, and middle-class sportsmen. twenty years later it had develop into an leisure enterprise run by way of vendors and bosses, looking on gate receipts and the more and more disciplined hard work of expert player-employees. Playing for Keeps is an insightful, in-depth account of the sport that turned America's most advantageous spectator activity for almost a century.
Reconstructing the tradition and adventure of early baseball via a cautious examining of the carrying press, baseball courses, and the correspondence of the player-manager Harry Wright, Warren Goldstein discovers the origins of many glossy controversies through the game's earliest decades.
The twentieth Anniversary version of Goldstein's vintage comprises information regarding the adjustments that experience happened within the heritage of the game because the Eighties and an account of his adventure as a scholarly advisor through the creation of Ken Burns's Baseball.
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