Exactly one hundred years before the Brooklyn Dodgers won the 1955
World Series, the Brooklyn Excelsiors were playing on the same
grounds where the Dodgers would begin their long history. Brooklyn
and its teams played a prominent role in the early history of the
game and reigned as champions of baseballs first organized league
through most of the 1860s. The early years of organized baseball
(1855-1884) in Brooklyn when it was the center of the baseball
universe is the focus of this book. In addition to discussing the
early clubs and players, this work examines the transformation of
baseball from a recreational pursuit of gentlemens clubs to a
professional spectator sport. It also reveals much about the social
norms, gender and race relations, and the role of the media in the
early game and covers the many firsts that are attributed to early
Brooklyn teams, such as having the first paid player, tragic hero
and curveball pitcher, and being the first team to take road trips,
play in enclosed ball parks and charge admission. Notably, they
were heralded by the most famed sports journalist of the nineteenth
century.
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