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Think you know how the game of baseball began? Think again. Forget Abner Doubleday and Cooperstown. Did baseball even have a father--or did it just evolve from other bat-and-ball games? John Thorn, baseball's preeminent historian, examines the creation story of the game and finds it all to be a gigantic lie. From its earliest days baseball was a vehicle for gambling, a proxy form of class warfare. Thorn traces the rise of the New York version of the game over other variations popular in Massachusetts and Philadelphia. He shows how the sport's increasing popularity in the early decades of the nineteenth century mirrored the migration of young men from farms and small towns to cities, especially New York. Full of heroes, scoundrels, and dupes, this book tells the story of nineteenth-century America, a land of opportunity and limitation, of glory and greed--all present in the wondrous alloy that is our nation and its pastime.--From publisher description.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the public in good condition in order to preserve their cultural heritage.
Cornelia Anna Baker, daughter of Daniel Andrew Jackson Baker and Cornelia Calfurnia Kneeland, was born 2 Feb 1860, in St. Paul, Minnesota. She married Henry Rice Hollinshead, son of William Hollinshead and Ellen Rice, on 29 Nov 1880. They had four children. Henry died on 21 July 1888 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Cornelia died 1 Aug 1949, also in St. Paul. Her ancestors and descendants are listed in this book and have lived in Minnesota, Idaho, Utah, California, Colorado, Rhode Island, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont and other areas in the United States.
Eugene V. Debs exploded upon the national scene in 1894 as the leader of a sensational strike by his American Railway Union (ARU) against the Pullman Parlor Car Company—a job stoppage which paralyzed the country's transportation network for nearly two weeks. On January 1, 1897, the polarizing public figure Debs declared his allegiance to international socialism, emerging as the most widely recognized socialist in America. He would thereafter tour the country relentlessly, speaking to large audiences and writing hundreds of articles on political and economic themes over the ensuing three decades. Debs almost singlehandedly established a new political party, the Social Democracy of America, ...