Monica Nucciarone

Alexander Cartwright

The Life behind the Baseball Legend

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Produktbeschreibung

Monica Nucciarone is a professor and¿faculty counselor advisor at Pierce College Fort Steilacoom in Washington and teaches part-time in the field of social sciences and career development. John Thorn is the official historian for Major League Baseball.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 134mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780803249264
• ISBN-10: 0803249268
• Artikelnr.: 40139216

Autorenporträt

Monica Nucciarone is a professor and faculty counselor advisor at Pierce College Fort Steilacoom in Washington and teaches part-time in the field of social sciences and career development. John Thorn is the official historian for Major League Baseball.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Baseball Diamond at Madison Square
 
Part 1. A Legendary Life
1. Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr. and Nineteenth-Century New York
2. The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York
3. The Rush for Gold
4. The Allure of Paradise
5. An American in Kamehameha's Kingdom
6. America's National Pastime in Hawaii
7. Cartwright and the Monarchy in the 1860s and 1870s
8. Annexation and the Hawaiian League
9. Spalding Comes to Hawaii
10. The Death of Cartwright, a King, and a Kingdom
 
Part 2. The Mythography of a Man
11. "Dear Old Knickerbockers"
12. "Baseball on Murray Hill"
13. "On Mountain and Prairie"
14. "On the Sunny Plains of Hawaii nei"
15. Baseball and the "Family Lare"
 
Conclusion: Alexander Cartwright, Father of Modern Baseball*
Notes
Bibliography
Index