Live All You Can : Alexander Joy Cartwright and the Invention of Modern Baseball
By: Martin, Jay (Author).
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton. Published: 19/06/2009. Audience Guide: General (US: Trade).
Hardback. Sourced from U.S.A.
Laying waste to the claim that Abner Doubleday established the modern game of baseball, Jay Martin makes a bold case for A. J. Cartwright (1820-1892), an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and avid ballplayer whose keen perception and restless spirit codified the sport and engineered its spread throughout the country.Consulting Cartwright's personal correspondence and papers, Jay Martin, an acclaimed biographer, shows how this American archetype synthesized a number of elements from popular ballgames into the rules, bylaws, and positions we follow on the field today. Cartwright then worked tirelessly to promote the game, appealing to both upper- and lower-class spectators and ballplayers and leaving a trail of influence across nineteenth-century America. Martin locates the origins of the controversy between the claims for Doubleday and Cartwright, throwing into sharp relief competing ambitions at a time when the nation was aggressively expanding westward and individuals were presented with unparalleled opportunities for reinvention.
The story of modern baseball, then, not only offers a history of a thoroughly American phenomenon but also a fascinating investigation into our conception of the American ideal. Item Details
ISBN10/13: 0231147945/9780231147941
TITLE: Live All You Can
CONTRIBUTORS: Martin, Jay (Author)
IMPRINT: Columbia University Press
PUBLISHER: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
FORMAT: Hardback
PUBLICATION DATE: 19/06/2009
SUBJECT: History, Sports, General History, Team Ball Games
DIMENSIONS (Width x Height): 152mm x 229mm
PAGES: 176
AUDIENCE GUIDE: General (US: Trade)
ILLUSTRATIONS: 20 illus
CONTENTS: 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
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