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Chargement... How Baseball Happened: Outrageous Lies Exposed! The True Story Revealedpar Thomas W. Gilbert
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. In an exploration of the early game, Gilbert focuses on the Amateur Era, roughly 1850 - 1870, and identifies three key elements in its growth: ambition, gambling, and spectators. The railroad was also important, but no moreso than other transportation advances, like the New York canals. First, ambition. The men who played the New York game were young professionals, many of them doctors, who sought to establish a national sport as means of advancing physical fitness. Their games, unexpectedly, drew an audience willing to wager, which brought attention from others, eventually leading to enclosed grounds, paid admissions, and paid players. It was no accident, then, and no surprise that baseball succeeded where boxing and horse racing, both more spectator than participatory activities, had failed to take hold. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"Here's the fascinating origin story of baseball, where America's first sport came from and how it conquered a nation. Baseball's true founders were the thousands of amateurs -- ordinary people -- who played without gloves, facemasks or performance incentives in the middle decades of the 19th century. Unlike today's pro athletes, they lived full lives outside of sports. They practiced professions, built businesses and fought in the Civil War. Baseball was originally supposed to be played, not watched. This changed when crowds began to show up at games in Brooklyn in the late 1850s. We fans weren't invited to the party; we crashed it. Professionalism wasn't part of the plan either, but when an 1858 Brooklyn versus New York City series accidentally proved that people would pay to see baseball, the writing was on the outfield wall. When the first professional league was formed in 1871, baseball was already a fully formed modern sport with championships, media coverage and famous stars. Professional baseball invented itself, but not the sport of baseball. Baseball's amazing amateurs had already done that. If you love history and sports, you'll love their story"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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