{"product_id":"playing-for-keeps-a-history-of-early-baseball-9780801475085","title":"Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1850s organized baseball was a club-based fraternal sport thriving in the cultures of respectable artisans, clerks and shopkeepers, and middle-class sportsmen. Two decades later it had become an entertainment business run by owners and managers, depending on gate receipts and the increasingly disciplined labor of skilled player-employees. \u003ci\u003ePlaying for Keeps\u003c\/i\u003e is an insightful, in-depth account of the game that became America's premier spectator sport for nearly a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReconstructing the culture and experience of early baseball through a careful reading of the sporting press, baseball guides, and the correspondence of the player-manager Harry Wright, Warren Goldstein discovers the origins of many modern controversies during the game's earliest decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 20th Anniversary Edition of Goldstein's classic includes information about the changes that have occurred in the history of the sport since the 1980s and an account of his experience as a scholarly consultant during the production of Ken Burns's \u003ci\u003eBaseball\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Warren Jay Goldstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/11\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801475085\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWarren Goldstein is Professor of History and Chair of the History Department in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Hartford. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eWilliam Sloane Coffin, Jr.: A Holy Impatience\u003c\/i\u003e and coauthor (with Elliott Gorn) of\u003ci\u003e A Brief History of American Sports\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":41180621897843,"sku":"9.7808E+12","price":23.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_e8765bf5-9760-4cf1-a53d-579294e0f541.jpg?v=1703693721","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/playing-for-keeps-a-history-of-early-baseball-9780801475085","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}