Baseball and Cricket by George B Kirsch
How and why Americans chose baseball over its early rival, cricket, as the national pastime-
The Revolt of the Black Athlete
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Rocky Marciano
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Saying It's So
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Baseball
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Sweet William
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The Sport Marriage
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Sandow the Magnificent
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Surf and Rescue
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Benching Jim Crow
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Cold War Games
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The End of Amateurism in American Track and Field
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Extra Innings
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Dyed in Crimson
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The Gridiron Gospel
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Sol Butler
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Sex Testing
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Muhammad Ali, the People's Champ
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Bleacher Seats and Luxury Suites
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People of Prowess
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The Gold in the Rings
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Fighting
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Television and National Sport
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Heroes or Zeros? the Media's Perceptions of Paralympic Sport
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Team Chemistry
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A View from the Bench
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The End of Baseball As We Knew It
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Beyond the Field
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Sports in the Western World
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Golf in America
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Pigskin Nation
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The Creation of American Team Sports
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Paralympic Legacies
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Golf and the American Country Club
"A unique comprehensive history of America's first organized team sportsFocusing on New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Newark, Kirsch is the first to combine a history and analysis of baseball and cricket, showing the unique relationship between the two, and their places in urban history. . . . This is a major work in the field of sport history."
--Choice "Kirsch's account is highly engaging and quite edifying. . . . His analysis is keen, his prose readable, and his thesis fascinating. . . . Kirsch rescues from dusty archives the names of the important cricket teams (or rather clubs), their lineups, their statistics, and wonderfully vivid accounts of critical cricket matches that help provide a contemporary American audience scantly familiar with the game a sense of its excitement, its attraction."--Aethlon: Journal of Sports Literature "This is a marvelous book. It tells us much about who played the game, what sorts of persons they were, and gives us many details of early baseball, who won, and why, and what this meant to viewers of the game."--Journal of Social History
--Choice "Kirsch's account is highly engaging and quite edifying. . . . His analysis is keen, his prose readable, and his thesis fascinating. . . . Kirsch rescues from dusty archives the names of the important cricket teams (or rather clubs), their lineups, their statistics, and wonderfully vivid accounts of critical cricket matches that help provide a contemporary American audience scantly familiar with the game a sense of its excitement, its attraction."--Aethlon: Journal of Sports Literature "This is a marvelous book. It tells us much about who played the game, what sorts of persons they were, and gives us many details of early baseball, who won, and why, and what this meant to viewers of the game."--Journal of Social History
George B. Kirsch is a professor of history at Manhattan College. He is the author of Baseball in Blue and Gray: the National Pastime during the Civil War, and editor of the Encyclopedia of Ethnicity and Sports in the U.S. and volumes three and four of Sports in North America: A Documentary History.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780252074455 |
| ISBN 10 | 0252074459 |
| Title | Baseball and Cricket |
| Author | George B Kirsch |
| Series | Sport And Society |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
| Year published | 2007-03-12 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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