Baseball: The People's GameOxford University Press, 1991 M05 30 - 672 páginas In Baseball: The People's Game, Dorothy Seymour Mills and Harold Seymour produce an authoritative, multi-volume chronicle of America's national pastime. The first two volumes of this study -The Early Years and The Golden Age -won universal acclaim. The New York Times wrote that they "will grip every American who has invested part of his youth and dreams in the sport," while The Boston Globe called them "irresistible." Now, in The People's Game, the authors offer the first book devoted entirely to the history of the game outside of the professional leagues, revealing how, from its early beginnings up to World War II, baseball truly became the great American pastime. They explore the bond between baseball and boys through the decades, the game's place in institutions from colleges to prisons to the armed forces, the rise of women's baseball that coincided with nineteenth century feminism, and the struggles of black players and clubs from the later years of slavery up to the Second World War. Whether discussing the birth of softball or the origins of the seventh inning stretch, the Seymours enrich their extensive research with fascinating details and entertaining anecdotes as well as a wealth of baseball experience. The People's Game brings to life the central role of baseball for generations of Americans. Note: On August 2, 2010, Oxford University Press made public that it would credit Dorothy Seymour Mills as co-author of the three baseball histories previously "authored" solely by her late husband, Harold Seymour. The Seymours collaborated on Baseball: The Early Years (1960), Baseball: The Golden Age (1971) and Baseball: The People's Game (1991). |
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... pitcher and the eight other players who support him . * A pitched ball thrown at a speed up to a hundred miles an hour is a projectile capable of maiming or even killing . When facing such a missile the natural impulse , instead of ...
... pitcher and the eight other players who support him . * A pitched ball thrown at a speed up to a hundred miles an hour is a projectile capable of maiming or even killing . When facing such a missile the natural impulse , instead of ...
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... pitcher alone , the necessity for an early start might be qualified , because if he throws too much or attempts curve balls too soon he risks ruining his arm . Baseball also emphasizes team play . One of the game's attractions is its ...
... pitcher alone , the necessity for an early start might be qualified , because if he throws too much or attempts curve balls too soon he risks ruining his arm . Baseball also emphasizes team play . One of the game's attractions is its ...
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... pitcher Stanley Coveleskie , who worked from seven to seven , six days a week , as a boy in the Penn- sylvania mines , said he had little opportunity to play ball , but in the evenings he threw stones at cans . Southern cotton mill ...
... pitcher Stanley Coveleskie , who worked from seven to seven , six days a week , as a boy in the Penn- sylvania mines , said he had little opportunity to play ball , but in the evenings he threw stones at cans . Southern cotton mill ...
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... pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals of the 1930s , claimed that the first ball he ever owned was fashioned out of string wound around a walnut and held together with a cover made of tongues cut from shoes , Charlie Finley , later a big ...
... pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals of the 1930s , claimed that the first ball he ever owned was fashioned out of string wound around a walnut and held together with a cover made of tongues cut from shoes , Charlie Finley , later a big ...
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... pitched in the major leagues , made their first gloves out of sacks crudely sewn to the shape of their hands . Bing ... pitcher often wore a copper toeplate or had a piece of heavy leather stitched into the toe of the shoe for his pivot ...
... pitched in the major leagues , made their first gloves out of sacks crudely sewn to the shape of their hands . Bing ... pitcher often wore a copper toeplate or had a piece of heavy leather stitched into the toe of the shoe for his pivot ...
Contenido
THE HOUSE OF BASEBALL THE GROUND FLOOR | 129 |
Illustrations | 212 |
THE HOUSE OF BASEBALL THE BASEMENT | 377 |
THE HOUSE OF BASEBALL THE ANNEX | 441 |
THE HOUSE OF BASEBALL THE OUTBUILDING | 529 |
Bibliographical Note | 611 |
Index | 625 |
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Página 8 - A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." And Deering's Woods are fresh and fair, And with joy that is almost pain My heart goes back to wander there, And among the dreams of the days that were, I find my lost youth again. And the strange and beautiful song, The groves are repeating it still: "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Página 42 - Putting aside for a moment its professional questions, base-ball is for every boy a good, wholesome sport. It brings him out of the close confinement of the school-room. It takes the stoop from his shoulders, and puts hard, honest muscle all over his frame. It rests his eyes, strengthens his lungs, and teaches him self-reliance and courage. Every mother ought to rejoice when her boy says he is on his school or college nine.
Página 308 - That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination when that is accomplished to leave the government and control of the island to its people.
Página 290 - Upon the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that, upon other fields, on other days, will bear the fruits of victory.
Página 40 - In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing "base,
Página 159 - ... athletic games, the zest of contest and competition, the challenge there is in most college activities to the instinct of initiative and the gifts of leadership and achievement, — all these are wholesome means of stimulation, which keep young men from going stale and turning to things that demoralize. But they should not assume the front of the stage where more serious and lasting interests are to be served.
Página 154 - I want you to develop teams which we can send around the country and knock out all the colleges.
Página 132 - Government, seeing that something must be done to induce the students to exercise, recommended a game of ball now and then, which communicated such an impulse to our limbs and joints, that there is nothing now heard of, in our leisure hours, but ball — ball — ball.
Página 196 - Ball-playing and Sleigh-riding are two other pastimes in which the Americans indulge with rare gusto. By the rural population Saturday afternoon is usually assigned to the former, on which occasions the young men are as active and expert in throwing and catching, or striking the ball, as if they had been idle all the previous week, instead of having had to work in the fields with the utmost energy. Sleighriding, of course, takes place in the winter only, when the ground is covered with snow, and...