Martin Live All You Can

Alexander Joy Cartwright and the Invention of Modern Baseball
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-51969-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Martin, Jay

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Sport: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Geschichte des Sports
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Ballsportarten Badminton Baseball

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Birth of the Father
The Dream
Cartwright, Dreaming Again
Across the Plains
Visions and Revisions
Paradise Bound
Paradise Found
The Last Gasp of the Great Sailing Ships
Missionary Baseball
Starting All Over Again: It's Gonna Be Rough—but We're Gonna Make It
The New Fire Chief
Freemasonry Comes to Hawaii
A Gift from the Sea—and a Loss
Back to Baseball
DeWitt and His Brothers
Cartwright & Co., Ltd.
Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr., American
The Social Whirl
Advisor to the Queen
Deaths and New Life
King Sugar
Baseball on the Plantations
Spalding's World Tour—First Stop, Hawaii
The Final Dissolving
Cartwright's Second Life: Myth Into History
Appendix 1: Chronology of the Life of Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr.
Appendix 2: Did Cartwright "Really Invent" Baseball? Or, How Did the Game Evolve Before He Arrived? A Short Survey of Two Vexed Questions
Notes and References
Acknowledgments
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jay Martin is the Edward S. Gould Professor of Humanities, professor of government, and founder of the Questions of Civilization Program at Claremont McKenna College. He has written and edited twenty-one books, including biographies of Nathanael West, Henry Miller, John Dewey, and Conrad Aiken, along with a standard history of American literature from 1865 to 1914. His most recent book is the short story collection Baseball Magic.