ISBN: 9780809027637 - autumn glory: baseball's first world series (8 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Printing. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Private owner's book plate on the front free endpaper. ; 8.88 X 5.38 X 0.95 inches.

hardcover. Zustand: Like New. First Edition. Publisher: Hill and Wang, New York, 2003. FINE hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. First Edition, First Printing. As new. Pristine.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. 244pp In 1903, the Pirates owner challenged the Boston Americans to a play-off, which they lost. This was the first World Series. All sorts of strange things happened that make for really good reading and a well-done book. There is a thin half inch gray smudge on the fore-edge. (loc BB/1).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. No defects to pages. Binding slightly bent at spine. No marks or stains on cover. Near fine dust jacket; no tears or discoloration, very minimal creases. Measures 5.75 x 8.5 inches, 244 pages. An in-depth historical account of and commentary on American professional baseball's first World Series between the NL's Pittsburgh Pirates and AL's Boston Americans. From dust jacket: "before and even during the 1903 season, it seemed that baseball might succumb to the forces that had been splintering the sport for decades: owners' greed, players' rowdyism, fan' unrest. Yet baseball prevailed, and Masur tells the dramatic story of how it did so, in a country preoccupied with labor strife and big-business ruthlessness and anxious about the welfare of those crowding into cities such as Pittsburgh and Boston (which in themselves offered competing versions of the American dream). His colorful history of how the first World Series consolidated baseball's hold on the American imagination makes us see what one sportswriter meant when he wrote at the time, 'baseball is the melting pot at a boil, the most democratic sport in the world.' All in all, Masur believes, it still is.".…

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