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Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins - Inside Early Baseball in Illinois (Paperback)
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Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins - Inside Early Baseball in Illinois (Paperback)
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Baseball's spread across Illinois paralleled the sport's explosive
growth in other parts of the country. Robert D. Sampson taps a
wealth of archival research to transport readers to an era when an
epidemic of "base ball on the brain" raged from Alton to Woodstock.
Focusing on the years 1865 to 1869, Sampson offers a vivid portrait
of a game where local teams and civic ambition went hand in hand
and teams of paid professionals displaced gentlemen's clubs devoted
to sporting fair play. This preoccupation with competition sparked
rules disputes and controversies over imported players while the
game itself mirrored society by excluding Black Americans and
women. The new era nonetheless brought out paying crowds to watch
the Rock Island Lively Turtles, Fairfield Snails, and other teams
take the field up and down the state. A first-ever history of early
baseball in Illinois, Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins adds the
Prairie State game's unique shadings and colorful stories to the
history of the national pastime.
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