Doubleday Doubletake
One Ball, Three Strikes, One Man Out
For more than 100 years, Civil War hero Abner Doubleday was at the heart of the myth of the invention of baseball. His name is on monuments, playing fields, and many a book. Contemporary baseball historians paint a far more complex picture and now discount Doubleday's role altogether. Some have even speculated that, being long dead when the Doubleday myth was created, he was a convenient foil for a conspiracy led by the powerful Albert Spalding, who was part of a prominent religious movement of the day, to set in stone the American roots of the game and, perhaps, to advance some additional goals. What would be Spalding's motivation for crea…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-955398-14-5
- EAN: 9781955398145
- Produktnummer: 38774009
- Verlag: Summer Game Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 260 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.5 cm 427 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 427
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