Sports in the Western WorldRowman and Littlefield, 1982 - 360 sider Traces the history of sports from the original Greek Olympics to the development of professional team sports and considers the business and political aspects of sports. |
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Side 141
... baseball was not solely derived from rounders : it was a hybrid of rounders and cricket . From rounders baseball took its rudimentary " diamond " design and the practice of running around bases , but from the more highly organized game ...
... baseball was not solely derived from rounders : it was a hybrid of rounders and cricket . From rounders baseball took its rudimentary " diamond " design and the practice of running around bases , but from the more highly organized game ...
Side 143
... baseball was " our indigenous American game . . . whose briskness and unceasing activity are perhaps more congenial . . . to our national character , than the comparative deliberations of cricket . " Baseball satisifed not only ...
... baseball was " our indigenous American game . . . whose briskness and unceasing activity are perhaps more congenial . . . to our national character , than the comparative deliberations of cricket . " Baseball satisifed not only ...
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... baseball . Harold Seymour , Baseball : The Early Years ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1960 ) is graceful and informed ; David Quentin Voight , American Baseball : From Gentleman's Sport to the Commissioner System ( Norman ...
... baseball . Harold Seymour , Baseball : The Early Years ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1960 ) is graceful and informed ; David Quentin Voight , American Baseball : From Gentleman's Sport to the Commissioner System ( Norman ...
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Medieval People at Play | 42 |
New Standards for Old Sports | 85 |
The Birth of Mass Leisure | 99 |
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