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Carregando... But Didn't We Have Fun?: An Informal History of Baseball's Pioneer Era, 1843-1870de Peter Morris
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Being an "informal history" of baseball's very early days. Morris' thesis is that historians have underestimated the fun quotient in their accounts of early baseball. His approach pays very little attention to individual games or players, certainly not the prominent ones, but simply uses recollections of the players as well as newspaper accounts of the day to generate a mental picture of the old days out at the old ballyard. He succeeds in this quite richly. If one wanted to quibble a little, I could have done with less emphasis on examples from his home state and perhaps letting his thesis speak for itself rather than his occasional attempts to shoehorn material into it. ( ) sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
The story of baseball in America begins not with the fabled Abner Doubleday but with a generation of mid-nineteenth-century Americans who moved from the countryside to the cities and brought a cherished but delightfully informal game with them. But Didn't We Have Fun? will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about baseball's origins. Peter Morris, author of the prizewinning A Game of Inches, takes a fresh look at the early amateur years of the game. Mr. Morris retrieves a lost era and a lost way of life. Offering a challenging new perspective on baseball's earliest years, and conveying the sense of delight that once pervaded the game and its players, Mr. Morris supplants old myths with a story just as marvelous--but one that really happened. With 25 rare photographs and drawings. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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