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Long before the Dodgers : baseball in Brooklyn, 1855-1884
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Long before the Dodgers : baseball in Brooklyn, 1855-1884

Auteur : James L Terry
Éditeur : Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., ©2002.
Édition/format :   Livre : Anglais
Résumé :
Exactly one hundred years before the Brooklyn Dodgers won the 1955 World Series, the Brooklyn Excelsiors were playing on the same grounds where the Dodgers would begin their long history. Brooklyn and its teams played a prominent role in the early history of the game and reigned as champions of baseball's first organized league through most of the 1860s. The early years of organized baseball (1855-1884) in Brooklyn  Lire la suite...
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Format : Livre
Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : James L Terry
ISBN : 0786412291 9780786412297
Numéro OCLC : 48810967
Description : vii, 187 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contenu : 1 In the Beginning 7 --
2 Excelsiors and Eckfords 29 --
3 Reign of the Atlantics 45 --
4 The Rise of Professionalism 67 --
5 For the Love of the Game 89 --
6 The Professional Leagues 96 --
7 The White Man's Game 112 --
8 The Birth of the Dodgers 124 --
9 Brooklyn's Early Stars 131 --
Appendix 1 Home Grounds of Brooklyn Baseball Clubs 157 --
Appendix 2 Records of Brooklyn Clubs in the National Association of Base Ball Players (1857-68) 160 --
Appendix 3 Records of Brooklyn Clubs in the National Association of Base Ball Players (1869-70) 162.
Responsabilité : by James L. Terry.

Résumé :

Exactly one hundred years before the Brooklyn Dodgers won the 1955 World Series, the Brooklyn Excelsiors were playing on the same grounds where the Dodgers would begin their long history. Brooklyn and its teams played a prominent role in the early history of the game and reigned as champions of baseball's first organized league through most of the 1860s. The early years of organized baseball (1855-1884) in Brooklyn when it was the center of the baseball universe is the focus of this book. In addition to discussing the early clubs and players, this work examines the transformation of baseball from a recreational pursuit of gentlemen's clubs to a professional spectator sport. It also reveals much about the social norms, gender and race relations, and the role of the media in the early game and covers the many firsts that are attributed to early Brooklyn teams, such as having the first paid player, tragic hero and curveball pitcher, and being the first team to take road trips, play in enclosed ball parks and charge admission. Notably, they were heralded by the most famed sports journalist of the nineteenth century.

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