A. G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball by Peter Levine

A. G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball by Peter Levine

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.

"As a study of Spalding's role in the emergence of professional sports, Levine's book is a valuable addition to a fast-growing area of scholarship"--American Historical Review "A.G. Spalding joins an impressive body of historical writing...which focuses on baseball in pre-World War I America."--Journal of American Culture "Levine's scholarly biography of Albert Goodwill Spalding fills a large gap in baseball historiography....Well-written and thoughtful....It will long endure as the standard work on Spalding."--Journal of American History "Levine...has aptly given Spalding the central place he deserves in the history of American culture....A.G. Spalding would have liked this book."--Illinois Historical Journal "A.G. Spalding would have liked this book."--Illinois Historical Journal "Levine ably ties Spalding's life into the rise of baseball and, more importantly, late nineteenth-century culture."--William Simons, State University of New York, Oneonta

Peter G.Levine is co-director of the Neuromotor Recovery and Rehabilitation Laboratory and a researcher at the University of Cincinnati Academic Medical Center's Department of Rehabilitation Sciences in Cincinnati, Ohio. For almost a decade, Levine has been active in stroke-specific rehabilitation research and has been published in journals and magazines, including the National Stroke Association's StrokeSmart. Levine also publishes a monthly blog for Progress for Physical Therapists and leads workshops on stroke therapy and neuroplasticity across the United States.

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ISBN 13	9780195042207
ISBN 10	0195042204
Title	A. G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball
Author	Peter Levine
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc
Year published	1987-03-26
Number of pages	199
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