Baseball in Blue and Gray: the National Pastime during the Civil War

✍ Scribed by Kirsch, George B

Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 164
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE: The Rise of Baseball; CHAPTER TWO: Battlefront; CHAPTER THREE: Home Front; CHAPTER FOUR: Players and Clubs; CHAPTER FIVE: Championship Competition and Commercialization; CHAPTER SIX: The War's Legacy; EPILOGUE; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY; INDEX.;During the Civil War, Americans from homefront to battlefront played baseball as never before. While soldiers slaughtered each other over the country's fate, players and fans struggled over the form of the national pastime. George Kirsch gives us a color commentary of the growth and transformation of baseball during the Civil War. He shows that the game was a vital part of the lives of many a soldier and civilian--and that baseball's popularity had everything to do with surging American nationalism. By 1860, baseball was poised to emerge as the American sport. Clubs in northeastern a.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER ONE: The Rise of Baseball
CHAPTER TWO: Battlefront
CHAPTER THREE: Home Front
CHAPTER FOUR: Players and Clubs
CHAPTER FIVE: Championship Competition and Commercialization
CHAPTER SIX: The War's Legacy
EPILOGUE
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
INDEX.

✦ Subjects

Baseball--United States--History--19th century;Recreation & Sports;Social Sciences;Electronic books;Baseball -- United States -- History -- 19th century

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