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Early Professional Baseball and the Sporting Press: Shaping the Image of the Game R. Terry Furst
Early Professional Baseball and the Sporting Press: Shaping the Image of the Game
R. Terry Furst
Analyses 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.
173 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | April 2, 2014 |
| ISBN13 | 9780786469857 |
| Publishers | McFarland & Co Inc |
| Pages | 184 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 9 mm · 254 g |
| Language | English |