Early Professional Baseball and the Sporting Press: Shaping the Image of the Game

by R. Terry Furst

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 century. The American collective image grew as a result of sports reportage, conversations about baseball in social and work groupings, game attendance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786469854
• ISBN13: 9780786469857
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher