This Too Was America

This Too Was America

Philadelphia's Era of Cricket

Melville, Tom

McFarland & Co Inc

03/2023

248

Mole

Inglês

9781476691282

15 a 20 dias

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Table of Contents


Prologue

A Note on Technical Cricket Terms

One. New York/Philadelphia Cricket and the Ball-Playing Spring of the 1840s

Two. The Rise of Philadelphia Cricket and the Uncertainty of a Sporting Identity

Three. -Post-Civil War Cricket and Baseball and the Divergence of a Sporting Culture

Four. Guardian of a Sporting Alternative

Five. Young America, the Hargreaves Family, and the Assertion of Nativism

Six. Intern to Internationalism

Seven. Clubs, Players, and the Flowering of Late 19th-Century Philadelphia Cricket

Eight. Ambivalence of Destiny

Nine. "A Civilization of Its Own": The World of Late 19th-Century Philadelphia Cricket

Ten. Visions of Viability: The England Tour of 1903

Eleven. Twilight of Internationalism and the Drift from Nativism

Twelve. Decline, Denial, and Dreams: The Passing of Philadelphia Cricket

Epilogue

Appendix: Casual Olympian

Chapter Notes

Bibliographic Essay

Index
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