Alexander Cartwright : the life behind the baseball legend / Monica Nucciarone ; foreword by John Thorn.
2009
GV865.C32 N83 2009eb
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Title
Alexander Cartwright : the life behind the baseball legend / Monica Nucciarone ; foreword by John Thorn.
Author
ISBN
9780803224605 (electronic bk.)
0803224605 (electronic bk.)
9780803233539 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0803224605 (electronic bk.)
9780803233539 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Imprint
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxxiv, 267 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Call Number
GV865.C32 N83 2009eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)440817215
Summary
Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr. (1820-92) was present during the organization of the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York in the mid-1800s. That much is certain. Since that time, and especially with his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1938, Cartwright has been celebrated as the founder of our national pastime, much like Abner Doubleday. As with Doubleday, Cartwright's claim to fame has caused all sorts of conjecture and controversy. His complex life, not just the mythography surrounding him, comes clearly into focus in Monica Nucciarone's biography of the incomparable Cartwright.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-256) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Baseball Diamond at Madison Square; Part I: A Legendary Life; 1. Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr. and Nineteenth-Century New York; 2. The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York; 3. The Rush for Gold; 4. The Allure of Paradise; 5. An American in Kamehameha's Kingdom; 6. America's National Pastime in Hawaii; 7. Cartwright and the Monarchy in the 1860s and 1870s; 8. Annexation and the Hawaiian League; 9. Spalding Comes to Hawaii; 10. The Death of Cartwright, a King, and a Kingdom.
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Print version: Nucciarone, Monica. Alexander Cartwright. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009
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