A. G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball : The Promise of American Sport

A. G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball : The Promise of American Sport

A. G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball : The Promise of American Sport

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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.

A. G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball : The Promise of American Sport ,Peter Levine,Oxford University Press, USA,0195042204,(Albert Goodwill),Baseball - History,Baseball players,Biography,Entrepreneurship,Popular Culture - General,Spalding, A. G,Spalding, A. G.,Sports,Sports & Recreation,United States,United States - General,History, American | Cultural,Sports & Outdoor Recreation,Sports & Recreation / Baseball / General

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