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Autumn Glory: Baseball's First World Series Paperback - 2004

by Louis P. Masur


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A suspenseful account of the glorious days more than a century ago when our national madness began, the first Major League Baseball World Series.

A post-season series of games to establish supremacy in the major leagues was not inevitable in the baseball world. But in 1903 the owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates (in the well-established National League) challenged the Boston Americans (in the upstart American League) to a play-off, which he was sure his team would win. They didn't--and that wasn't the only surprise during what became the first World Series. In Autumn Glory, Louis P. Masur tells the riveting story of two agonizing weeks in which the stars blew it, unknown players stole the show, hysterical fans got into the act, and umpires had to hold on for dear life. Before and even during the 1903 season, it had seemed that baseball might succumb to the forces that had been splintering the sport for decades: owners' greed, players' rowdyism, fans' unrest. Yet baseball prevailed, and Masur tells the equally dramatic story of how it did so, in a country preoccupied with labor strife and big-business ruthlessness, and anxious about the welfare of those crowding into cities such as Pittsburgh and Boston (which in themselves offered competing versions of the American dream). His colorful history of how the first World Series consolidated baseball's hold on the American imagination makes us see what one sportswriter meant when he wrote at the time, Baseball is the melting pot at a boil, the most democratic sport in the world. All in all, Masur believes, it still is.

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THE CROWD IN BOSTON GATHERED EARLY.

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  • Title Autumn Glory: Baseball's First World Series
  • Author Louis P. Masur
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Printing
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl, New York
  • Date 2004-10-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780809016365 / 0809016362
  • Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.62 x 0.65 in (21.08 x 14.27 x 1.65 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.357

About the author

Louis P. Masur, a professor of history at City College of New York and the editor of Reviews in American History, is the author of 1831: Year of Eclipse (H&W, 2001). He lives in New Jersey with his wife and children.
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