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The Creation of American Team Sports: Baseball & Cricket, 1838-72
by George B Kirsch
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0252015606
- ISBN 13
- 9780252015601
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Urbana: University Of Illinois Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition/printing. Fine but with some light foxing to the top edge of the text block, in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. xiv+ 277 pp. with index. Illustrated with reproductions and photographs. A study of what role sports played in the social and urban history of 19th century America, specifically why Americans chose baseball over cricket. The author takes us back to the amateur playing fields of New York, City, Philadelphia, Newark, Boston, Chicago, and Cincinati to observe their clubs and players from 1838 to 1872.
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- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E24893
- Title
- The Creation of American Team Sports: Baseball & Cricket, 1838-72
- Author
- George B Kirsch
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0252015606
- ISBN 13
- 9780252015601
- Publisher
- University Of Illinois Press
- Place of Publication
- Urbana
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- sports, baseball, cricket, harry wright, george wright, urban history, sociology, recreation, games
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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