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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Gilbert, Thomas W., author.     Subjects     Baseball -- United States -- History -- 19th century.     Baseball -- Economic aspects -- United States.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gilbert, Thomas W., author.       by title:      How baseball happene...         MARC Display

How baseball happened : outrageous lies exposed! the true story revealed / Thomas W. Gilbert ; with an introduction by John Thorn. by Gilbert, Thomas W., author. Boston, MA : David R. Godine, Publisher, 2020. Subjects Baseball -- United States -- History -- 19th century.   Baseball -- Economic aspects -- United States. ISBN:  9781567926774 (hardcover) 1567926770 (hardcover) Description:  381 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "Here's the fascinating origin story of baseball, where America's first sport came from and how it conquered a nation. Baseball's true founders were the thousands of amateurs -- ordinary people -- who played without gloves, facemasks or performance incentives in the middle decades of the 19th century. Unlike today's pro athletes, they lived full lives outside of sports. They practiced professions, built businesses and fought in the Civil War. Baseball was originally supposed to be played, not watched. This changed when crowds began to show up at games in Brooklyn in the late 1850s. We fans weren't invited to the party; we crashed it. Professionalism wasn't part of the plan either, but when an 1858 Brooklyn versus New York City series accidentally proved that people would pay to see baseball, the writing was on the outfield wall. When the first professional league was formed in 1871, baseball was already a fully formed modern sport with championships, media coverage and famous stars. Professional baseball invented itself, but not the sport of baseball. Baseball's amazing amateurs had already done that. If you love history and sports, you'll love their story"--Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 796.35709 Gilbert Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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