The book analyses the process by which the collective image of
professional baseball was formed. It traces both the negation and
the affirmation of ideas in the sports press that would impede or
promote the growth of baseball from a recreational pastime to a
team sport spectacle in the mid-19th century. The American
collective image grew as a result of sports reportage,
conversations about baseball in social and work groupings, game
attendance (and changing values toward work and play), and reports
of gambling. Newspaper editorials and news stories and letters to
the editor are studied as to shifting and complex and inter-related
sentiments toward playing baseball. Much of this interactive
complex was influenced by the English sports ideal and newly formed
attitudes toward recreation. Above all, the sports press was the
primary shaper of the image of professional baseball.
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