A. G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball: The Promise of American Sport (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780195042207)

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.

Author: Peter Levine
ISBN-10: 0195042204
ISBN-13: 9780195042207
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 09/11/1986
Pages: 199
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.37w x 0.46d