Baseball. [Vol. 2], Golden age / Harold Seymour.
These two critically-acclaimed volumes mark the beginning of a monumental multi-volume study of baseball by the man whom Sports Illustrated has called "the Edward Gibbon of baseball history." Now available in paperback, Harold Seymour's The Early Years and The Golden Age together reco...
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| Other title: | Golden age |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1971.
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| Summary: | These two critically-acclaimed volumes mark the beginning of a monumental multi-volume study of baseball by the man whom Sports Illustrated has called "the Edward Gibbon of baseball history." Now available in paperback, Harold Seymour's The Early Years and The Golden Age together recount the true story of how baseball came into being and how it developed into a highly organized business and social institution. The first volume, The Early Years, traces the growth of baseball from the time of the first recorded ball game at Valley Forge during the revolution until the formation of the two prese |
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| Item Description: | Co-authored by Dorothy Seymour Mills. "Dorothy Seymour Mills has been added by Oxford University Press as co-author of an acclaimed three-volume history of baseball originally attributed solely to her husband."--Sioux City Journal, July 25, 2010 |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 492 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198020127 0198020120 9781280605079 1280605073 9786610605071 6610605076 0195014030 9780195014037 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |