Baseball: The Golden Age (Oxford Paperbacks) - Softcover

Harold Seymour; Dorothy Z. Seymour

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195059131 ISBN 13: 9780195059137

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1989

Synopsis

Baseball: The Golden Years By Harold Seymour

About this title

From the Back Cover:

With Baseball: The Golden Age, Dr. Harold Seymour--the man whom Sports Illustrated has called 'the Edward gibbon of baseball history'--continues his monumental multi-volume study of the sport. This second volume explores the both glorious and grievous era when the game truly captured the American imagination with such legendary figures at Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth and also appalled fans with startling scandals. Beginning with the formation of the two major leagues in 1903, Seymour examines the changes in the organization of professional baseball from an unwieldy three-man commission to the strong one-man rule of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis.

About the Author:

Harold Seymour, Ph.D., baseball's leading historian, was a college history professor for more than fifteen years. Moreover, he knows baseball firsthand through experience as batboy for the Brooklyn Dodgers, high school PSAL and college player, organizer and field manager of amateur and semipro teams, and major-league bird dog.

Dorothy Seymour Mills is the author or co-author of 25 books, including historical novels and children's books. She is a member SABR, the North American Society for Sports History, and the Association for Women in Sports Media.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0195059131
• ISBN 13: 9780195059137
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512