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-Titulo Original : The Lords Of The Realm The Real History Of Baseball
-Fabricante :
Ballantine Books
-Descripcion Original:
The ultimate chronicle of the games behind the game.-The New York Times Book ReviewBaseball has always inspired rhapsodic elegies on the glory of man and golden memories of wonderful times. But what you see on the field is only half the game.In this fascinating, colorful chronicle-based on hundreds of interviews and years of research and digging-John Helyar brings to vivid life the extraordinary people and dramatic events that shaped Americas favorite pastime, from the dead-ball days at the turn of the century through the great strike of 1994. Witness zealous Judge Landis banish eight players, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, after the infamous Black Sox scandal; the flamboyant As owner Charlie Finley wheel and deal his star players, Vida Blue and Rollie Fingers, like a deck of cards; the hysterical bidding war of coveted free agent Catfish Hunter; the chain-smoking romantic, A. Bartlett Giamatti, locking horns with Pete Rose during his gambling days of summer; and much more.Praise for The Lords of the RealmA must-read for baseball fans . . . reads like a suspense novel.-Kirkus ReviewsRefreshingly hard-headed . . . the only book youll need to read on the subject.-NewsdayLots of stories . . . well told, amusing . . . edifying.-The Washington Post About the Author John Helyar is the author of Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball and the co-author (with Bryan Burrough) of Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. 1 BEFORE IT WAS ever a business it was a game. It came out of the 1840s, when teams from New York first crossed the Hudson River to Elysian Fields, laid out a diamond, agreed upon the rules, and played a game they called “base,” later lengthened to “baseball.” It grew in the 1850s and 1860s, but it remained a gentleman’s sport. Teams rode to their games in decorated carriages, singing their team songs. In country greens and city parks, thousands of young men played. It became too popular to remain amateur for long, in the young entrepreneurial nation. In 1871, the first league was formed of teams who played for pay. It was called the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, and it was a slapdash thing. Over its five-year life, teams came and went with dizzying rapidity-twenty-five of them in all. So did players. The best ones, called “revolvers,” jumped around between teams for the best offer. But if it wasn’t a stable business, it was well on its way to becoming the national pastime. “Like everything else American it came with a rush,” wrote John Montgomery Ward, a star player of the day. “The game is suited to the national temperament. It requires strength, courage and skill; it is full of dash and excitement and though a most difficult game in which to excel, it is yet extremely simple in its first principles and easily understood by everyone.” The changing landscape of the country had much to do with baseball’s hold on America. As people moved from rural farms into urban tenements during the emerging Industrial Revolution, the game kept a nation in touch with its roots. Baseball was played on vast swatches of green in the middle of dreary, gray cities. Baseball celebrated the rugged individual within a team game. It came to be called the National Pastime, not just because it was played and watched by so many people but because it so resembled the national character. Albert Goodwill Spalding tried to export baseball to other countries. The owner of a team and of a sporting-goods empire, he saw vast worldwide sales of bats and balls. In 1888, he even sponsored a globe-trotting tour of exhibition games that visited Hawaii, Australia, Ceylon, Egypt, Italy, France, England, and Ireland. In one far-flung locale after another, America’s top players were watched with profound indifference. The game took root only in America. Like the pioneering country still bei
-Fabricante :
Ballantine Books
-Descripcion Original:
The ultimate chronicle of the games behind the game.-The New York Times Book ReviewBaseball has always inspired rhapsodic elegies on the glory of man and golden memories of wonderful times. But what you see on the field is only half the game.In this fascinating, colorful chronicle-based on hundreds of interviews and years of research and digging-John Helyar brings to vivid life the extraordinary people and dramatic events that shaped Americas favorite pastime, from the dead-ball days at the turn of the century through the great strike of 1994. Witness zealous Judge Landis banish eight players, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, after the infamous Black Sox scandal; the flamboyant As owner Charlie Finley wheel and deal his star players, Vida Blue and Rollie Fingers, like a deck of cards; the hysterical bidding war of coveted free agent Catfish Hunter; the chain-smoking romantic, A. Bartlett Giamatti, locking horns with Pete Rose during his gambling days of summer; and much more.Praise for The Lords of the RealmA must-read for baseball fans . . . reads like a suspense novel.-Kirkus ReviewsRefreshingly hard-headed . . . the only book youll need to read on the subject.-NewsdayLots of stories . . . well told, amusing . . . edifying.-The Washington Post About the Author John Helyar is the author of Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball and the co-author (with Bryan Burrough) of Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. 1 BEFORE IT WAS ever a business it was a game. It came out of the 1840s, when teams from New York first crossed the Hudson River to Elysian Fields, laid out a diamond, agreed upon the rules, and played a game they called “base,” later lengthened to “baseball.” It grew in the 1850s and 1860s, but it remained a gentleman’s sport. Teams rode to their games in decorated carriages, singing their team songs. In country greens and city parks, thousands of young men played. It became too popular to remain amateur for long, in the young entrepreneurial nation. In 1871, the first league was formed of teams who played for pay. It was called the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, and it was a slapdash thing. Over its five-year life, teams came and went with dizzying rapidity-twenty-five of them in all. So did players. The best ones, called “revolvers,” jumped around between teams for the best offer. But if it wasn’t a stable business, it was well on its way to becoming the national pastime. “Like everything else American it came with a rush,” wrote John Montgomery Ward, a star player of the day. “The game is suited to the national temperament. It requires strength, courage and skill; it is full of dash and excitement and though a most difficult game in which to excel, it is yet extremely simple in its first principles and easily understood by everyone.” The changing landscape of the country had much to do with baseball’s hold on America. As people moved from rural farms into urban tenements during the emerging Industrial Revolution, the game kept a nation in touch with its roots. Baseball was played on vast swatches of green in the middle of dreary, gray cities. Baseball celebrated the rugged individual within a team game. It came to be called the National Pastime, not just because it was played and watched by so many people but because it so resembled the national character. Albert Goodwill Spalding tried to export baseball to other countries. The owner of a team and of a sporting-goods empire, he saw vast worldwide sales of bats and balls. In 1888, he even sponsored a globe-trotting tour of exhibition games that visited Hawaii, Australia, Ceylon, Egypt, Italy, France, England, and Ireland. In one far-flung locale after another, America’s top players were watched with profound indifference. The game took root only in America. Like the pioneering country still bei
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