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A. G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball: The Promise of American Sport
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A. G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball: The Promise of American Sport Paperback - 1986

by Peter Levine

This biography captures the zest, flamboyance, and creativity of Albert Goodwell Spalding, showman, entrepreneur, and co-founder of baseball's National League.


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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.

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Albert Goodwill Spalding was born and raised in country towns in the shadow of Chicago-sheltered by the amenities of wealth and by his mother.

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  • Title A. G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball: The Promise of American Sport
  • Author Peter Levine
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 199
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Date 1986-09-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780195042207 / 0195042204
  • Weight 0.42 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.37 x 0.46 in (20.32 x 13.64 x 1.17 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 84020679
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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