A. G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball

Kirjan A. G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball (1987) on kirjoittanut Peter Levine. Kirjan kieli on englanti, ja sen on kustantanut Oxford University Press Inc. Kirja on laajuudeltaan 199 sivua ja se on nidottu.

A. G. Spalding was a key figure in the professionalization and commercialization of American sports. Co-founder of baseball's National League, owner of the Chicago White Stockings (later Cubs), and founder of a sporting goods business that made him a millionaire, Spalding not only willed baseball to be our national pastime but also contributed to making sport a significant part of American life. This biography captures the zest, flamboyance, and creativity of Albert Goodwell Spalding, a man of insatiable ego, a showman and entrepreneur, whose life illuminated the hopes and fears of 19th-century Americans. It is also a vivid evocation of the vanished world of 19th-century baseball, recreating a time when it was transformed from a game played on unkempt fields to modern style.