Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, Vol. 9

Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, Vol. 9

Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, Vol. 9

Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, Vol. 9

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Overview


BACK ISSUE

Base Ball is a peer-reviewed book series published annually. Offering the best in original research and analysis, it promotes study of baseball's early history, from its protoball roots to 1920, and its rise to prominence within American popular culture.

Prior to Volume 10, Base Ball was published as Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game. This is a back issue of that journal.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781476621395
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 07/01/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 200
File size: 39 MB
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Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

About The Author
John Thorn is the author of countless articles on baseball history and has written, co-written, and edited dozens of baseball books, including The Hidden Game of Baseball, Total Baseball, and The Armchair Book of Baseball. He was founding editor of The National Pastime: A Review of Baseball History and founding publisher of Total Sports Publishing in 1998. Thorn writes “Play,” a regular column for the VOICES, the semiannual publication of the New York Folklore Society, and appears irregularly in the Boston Globe, New York Times and NYTBR. He serves as a publishing and curatorial consultant to the Museum of the City of New York, with whom he created the recently published coffee-table book New York 400.
John Thorn is the author of countless articles on baseball history and has written, co-written, and edited dozens of baseball books, including The Hidden Game of Baseball, Total Baseball, and The Armchair Book of Baseball. He was founding editor of The National Pastime: A Review of Baseball History and founding publisher of Total Sports Publishing in 1998. Thorn writes "Play," a regular column for the VOICES, the semiannual publication of the New York Folklore Society, and appears irregularly in the Boston Globe, New York Times and NYTBR. He serves as a publishing and curatorial consultant to the Museum of the City of New York, with whom he created the recently published coffee-table book New York 400.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
• Volume
Editor’s Note (John Thorn)
A Base Ball Krank’s Guide to Madison Square (Don Jensen)
18791/2: Baseball’s West Coast Postseason (Angus Macfarlane)
Morgan Bulkeley: Founding Father or Figurehead? (David Krell)
“A totally glorious, exhilarating game”: Baseball’s Emergence as the National Pastime (Bruce Allardice)
The Boys of Summer’s Winter Pastime: Major Leaguers’ Participation in Indoor Baseball, 1887–1917 (Laura A. Purcell)
Ashley Lloyd: A Modest but Constructive Presence in Baseball’s Executive Chambers (Bill Lamb)
The Making of Baseball’s Magna Carta (John Thorn)
Analysis of the “Laws of Base Ball” (Theodore A. Frank, Jr.)
Challenging Sunday Baseball in Old Chicago (Art Ahrens)
Pre–1920 Baseball Cartoons and Comic Art: A Brief Survey (Rob Edelman)
Andy Leonard Diary of 1874 England Tour
The Adoption of the Fly Game, 1856–1865 (Richard Hershberger)
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