Leading Off: 19th Century Superstars who Shaped Professional Baseball

Description: This posting is for a signed copy of the book Leading Off: 19th Century Superstars who Shaped Professional Baseball. The book features 18 biographic profiles of baseball Hall of Famers. Players included are: Cap Anson, Jake Beckley, Dan Brouthers, John Clarkson, Roger Connor, Ed Delahanty, Hugh Duffy, Buck Ewing, Billy Hamilton, Wee Willie Keeler, Mike King Kelly, Kid Nichols, Jim ORourke, Hoss Radbourn, Amos Rusie, Sam Thompson, Deacon White, and Cy Young. I am the author of the book, so if you would like a personalized inscription in your book, I would be glad to provide it. Just let me know through a note with your PayPal payment. Please be sure to view my other listings, as I am glad to combine shipping. Summary: Leading Off examines the biographies and careers of eighteen 19th century baseball Hall of Famers. Playing baseball as early as the years immediately after the Civil War and ranging into the early 1900s, these players made professional baseball a viable industry while also shaping the games rules, strategies, and equipment into what they have been for much of the modern era. At the same time, these players experienced and engaged in urbanization, racism, labor issues, and other key social elements of the American experience. While the examination of the players profiled in Leading Off provides a history of baseball that enriches appreciation of the modern game, it also identifies ways in which baseball was woven into the fabric of America in its earliest years, both in glory and in tribulation. This focused study of professional baseballs often overlooked age of origin will familiarize readers with the players who transformed a game into Americas national pastime. 175 pages.

Price: 16.99 USD

Location: Spring Hill, Tennessee

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