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How and why Americans chose baseball over its early rival, cricket, as the national pastime George B. Kirsch takes us back to amateur playing fields around the country to re-create the excitement of the early matches.

How and why Americans chose baseball over its early rival, cricket, as the national pastime George B.

As a narrative history, Baseball and Cricket places the growing popularity of the two sports within the social context of. .George B. Kirsch is professor of history at Manhattan College

As a narrative history, Baseball and Cricket places the growing popularity of the two sports within the social context of mid-nineteenth century American cities. The book's comparative analysis follows baseball's transition from a leisure sport to a commercialized, professional enterprise and offers the first complete discussion of the early American cricket clubs. Kirsch is professor of history at Manhattan College. and volumes 3 and 4 of Sports in North America: A Documentary History.

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Xiv, 277 pages, pages of plates ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. The rise of modern ball games - Early American cricket - The emergence of baseball - Civil War interlude - A national game - Players - Clubs - Spectators - Baseball's boom and cricket's survival - Baseball in transition.

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Baseball and cricket are the best-known members of a family of related bat-and-ball games. Despite their similarities, the two sports also have many differences in play and in strategy. A comparison between baseball and cricket can be instructive to followers of either sport, since the similarities help to highlight nuances particular to each game.

George B. He is the author of Baseball and Cricket: The Creation of American Team Sports, 1838-72; Baseball in Blue and Gray: the National Pastime During the Civil War; and several other books. Библиографические данные. Golf in America Sport and Society.

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Kirsch, George . The Creation of American Team Sports: Baseball and Cricket, 1838-72. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1989. Pp. xiv, 227. 13 black and white plates.

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