Abigail Adams(oop)

by Angela Osborne

Book Overview

A. G. Spalding was a key figure in the professionalization and commercialization of American sports. Co-founder of baseball's National League, owner of the Chicago White Stockings (later Cubs), and founder of a sporting goods business that made him a millionaire, Spalding not only willed baseball to be our national pastime but also contributed to making sport a significant part of American life. This biography captures the zest, flamboyance, and creativity of Albert Goodwell Spalding, a man of insatiable ego, a showman and entrepreneur, whose life illuminated the hopes and fears of 19th-century Americans. It is also a vivid evocation of the vanished world of 19th-century baseball, recreating a time when it was transformed from a game played on unkempt fields to modern style.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555466354
• ISBN13: 9781555466350
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
• Length: 111 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.5" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 9 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 6