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"""This excellent book details how the new, extremely popular sport of baseball was a microcosm of 19th-century American culture and describes how the social and cultural forces of the time influenced the development and growth of the sport.... This scholarly, informative, yet easy-to-read volume includes an excellent bibliography and will be a fine addition to academic library collections....recommended""--Choice; ""[This] much needed volume on nineteenth century baseball analyzes the culture of the sport.... Casway successfully navigates the minefield that is history at the intersection of ethnicity and race""--Sport in American History; ""well organized...highly recommended...satisfying...enjoyable read""--Nineteenth Century Research Committee, SABR; ""Casway takes his readers through a neat and thorough tour of both 19th-century baseball from its early structured-team origins of the 1840s up through the turn of the 20th-century, and the changing ethnicity of North America...highly recommended""--Nineteenth Century Notes; ""This book provides important insights into baseball during the nineteenth century. The author makes good use of both primary and secondary source material and demonstrates a very good grasp of the sport's evolution and its impact on American culture.""--David K. Wiggins, co-author, The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of the African American Experience in Sport."

Provides important insights into baseball during the nineteenth century. The author makes good use of both primary and secondary source material and demonstrates a very good grasp of the sport's evolution and its impact on American culture. --David K. Wiggins, co-author, The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of the African American Experience in Sport.

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Jerrrold I. Casway is a Dean and Professor Emeriti at Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland, USA. The author of two acclaimed books, he has published more than sixty articles covering seventeenth-century Irish History and nineteenth-century baseball topics. He has spoken on both sides of the Atlantic and recently was the featured keynote speaker at the baseball Hall of Fame.

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