R Terry Furst: 1 book
Early Professional Baseball and the Sporting Press
Shaping the Image of the Game
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The book analyzes 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...
