Baseball: The Golden Age

Informationen zum Autor Harold Seymour is a historian and free-lance writer Klappentext With Baseball: The Golden Age, Dr. Harold Seymour--the man whom Sports Illustrated has called 'the Edward gibbon of baseball history'--continues his monumental multi-volume study of the sport. This second volume explores the both glorious and grievous era when the game truly captured the American imagination with such legendary figures at Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth and also appalled fans with startling scandals. Beginning with the formation of the two major leagues in 1903, Seymour examines the changes in the organization of professional baseball from an unwieldy three-man commission to the strong one-man rule of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Zusammenfassung Following the story begun in Baseball: The Early Years, Harold Seymour explores the glorious and grevious era when the game truly captured the American imagination with legendary figures like Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, but also appalled fans with startling scandals. The Golden Age begins with the formation of the two major leagues in 1903, and describes how the organization of the professional game improved from an unwieldy three-man commission to the strong rule of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Seymour depicts the ways in which play on the field developed from the low-scoring, pitcher-dominated game of the `dead ball' era before the First World War to the high scores of the `lively ball' era of the 1920s.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Harold Seymour, Harold Seymour, Seymour Harold, Dorothy Seymour Mills
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.01.1996
• EAN: 9780195059137
• ISBN: 978-0-19-505913-7
• Pages: 502
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Livres de conseils > Sport > Sports de balle/ballon; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Histoire par région/pays; USA, Baseball, History, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / General, HISTORY / United States / General, Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Popular beliefs