Early professional baseball and the sporting press : shaping the image of the game / R. Terry Furst.

" Analyzed here is 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 cen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Furst, R. Terry
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers, [2014]
Subjects:
Baseball > United States > History > 19th century.
Baseball > United States > Public opinion.
Baseball > United States > Social aspects.
Sports > Public relations > United States.
Mass media and sports > United States.
Physical Description:viii, 173 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book

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