Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins: Inside Early Baseball in Illinois by Robert D

Description: Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins by Robert D. Sampson Winner of the Russell P. Strange Book of the Year Award from the Illinois State Historical Society Baseballs spread across Illinois paralleled the sports explosive growth in other parts of the country.Robert D. Sampson taps a wealth of archival research to transport readers to an era when an epidemic of "base ball on the brain" raged from Alton to Woodstock. Focusing on the years 1865 to 1869, Sampson offers a vivid portrait of a game where local teams and civic ambition went hand in hand and teams of paid professionals displaced gentlemens clubs devoted to sporting fair play. This preoccupation with competition sparked rules disputes and controversies over imported players while the game itself mirrored society by excluding Black Americans and women. The new era nonetheless brought out paying crowds to watch the Rock Island Lively Turtles, Fairfield Snails, and other teams take the field up and down the state. A first-ever history of early baseball in Illinois, Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins adds the Prairie State games unique shadings and colorful stories to the history of the national pastime. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Robert D. Sampson is the editor of the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society and the author of John L. OSullivan and His Times. Table of Contents Acknowledgments Prologue A Dying Ember First Inning Baseball Fever and Pioneers Second Inning Organizing Clubs, Funding, Travel, and the Games Rituals Third Inning Playing Fields, Gambling, and Injuries Fourth Inning The Game and Its Players Fifth Inning Sharing the Fun Sixth Inning Barriers of Race and Gender Seventh Inning Trouble in Baseballs Eden Eighth Inning Representative Teams Ninth Inning The Thrill Departs Epilogue Ghosts Appendix A Illinois Baseball Teams, 1865-70 Appendix B Bloomingtons Fifth Ward School-Grounds Neighborhood Appendix C Illinois Baseball Players, 1865-70 Notes Bibliography Index Review "Highly entertaining with useful appendices." --Spitball Magazine"Provides a wealth of detail about the origins of the Illinois game and the teams who played it from Chicago down south to Cairo and nearly every town in between." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch"A delightful collection of history and baseball anecdotes for both casual and serious baseball fans." --Illinois Times"Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins makes clear that there was a simplicity, innocence, and freshness to baseball in Illinois in these years, even as Sampson details the movement—probably inevitable—toward a more competitive and more professional level of play." --Third Coast Review"Effectively blends history and nostalgia, sparking an appreciation of the National pastime. . . . This 250-page gem by Robert D. Sampson is an exhaustive focus on baseballs early style and sweep when gentlemanly players, civic leaders, and hosts of spectators stressed the bliss more than the score." --Community Word"Detailed studies of baseball during these crucial years are rare, with ones that focus on a single state even more so. Bob Sampsons Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins is thus both timely and valuable, confirming some long-accepted assumptions and forcing reexamination of others. Highly recommended!"--Peter Morris, author of Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan Review Quote "Detailed studies of baseball during these crucial years are rare, with ones that focus on a single state even more so. Bob Sampsons Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins is thus both timely and valuable, confirming some long-accepted assumptions and forcing reexamination of others. Highly recommended!"--Peter Morris, author of Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan Details ISBN025204505X Author Robert D. Sampson Short Title Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins Publisher University of Illinois Press Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 025204505X ISBN-13 9780252045059 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2023-05-02 Subtitle Inside Early Baseball in Illinois Imprint University of Illinois Press Place of Publication Baltimore Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2023-05-02 US Release Date 2023-05-02 UK Release Date 2023-05-02 Illustrations 18 black & white photographs Pages 264 Alternative 9780252054341 DEWEY 796.3570977309034 Audience General AU Release Date 2023-05-01 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161657011;

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