University of Missouri, Date: 2002-07-31. Hardcover. Good. 2002. University of Missouri ISBN 0826214010 9780826214010 [US]

Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A. University of Missouri 2002 First Edition/First Printing Hardcover Fine in Fine jacket Book A square solid tight clean unread unused copy. A small paw print stamp? ? ? to ffep. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY.

ISBN10: 0826214010, ISBN13: 9780826214010, [publisher: University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A.] Hardcover First Edition A square solid tight clean unread unused copy. A small paw print stamp ??? to ffep. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY.
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University of Missouri, Date: 2002-07-31. First edition, complete line of . Hardcover. fine/fine. NOT an ex-library book. Binding is fairly tight, book does not appear to have been fully opened. 279 pages including the index. dust jacket has no chips or tears. 2002. University of Missouri ISBN 0826214010 9780826214010 [US]

2002: University of Missouri Press, Columbia, MO. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Jennifer Cropp (Jacket Design). xiv, [2], 279, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. This is one of the Sports and American Culture series. This spirited series explores sports in relation to the main currents of American culture. The series, which will include biographies, autobiographies, and team histories, as well as explorations of exciting eras, events, and moments, will address the issues of race, gender, ethnicity, class, immigration, urban life, and the revolutionary role of the media in the contemporary presentation of sports. The author was at the time this was published an Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Arkansas-Monticello. Jon David Cash examines the infancy of major-league baseball in St. Louis during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. His in-depth analysis begins with an exploration of the factors that motivated civic leaders to form the city's first major-league ball club, leading to the formation of the St. Louis Brown Stockings in 1875. He then explains why, three years later, despite its initial success, St. Louis baseball quickly vanished from the big-league map. St. Louis baseball was revived with the arrival of German immigrant saloon owner Chris Von der Ahe. Cash explains how Von der Ahe purchased a controlling interest in the Brown Stockings. His riveting ...