Early professional baseball and the sporting press : shaping the image of the game / R. Terry Furst.
Material type: TextPublisher: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781476606255 (electronic bk.)
- 1476606250 (electronic bk.)
- Baseball -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Baseball -- United States -- Public opinion
- Baseball -- Social aspects -- United States
- Sports -- Public relations -- United States
- Mass media and sports -- United States
- GAMES / Gambling / Sports
- SPORTS & RECREATION / Business Aspects
- SPORTS & RECREATION / Essays
- SPORTS & RECREATION / History
- SPORTS & RECREATION / Reference
- TRAVEL / Special Interest / Sports
- 796.357/64 23
- GV863.A1 F87 2014eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
" Analyzed here is 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. "-- Provided by publisher.
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