Spalding's World Tour: A Gilded Age Adventure and the Birth of Modern Baseball by Mark Lamster

Spalding's World Tour: A Gilded Age Adventure and the Birth of Modern Baseball

Mark Lamster

368 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional hopeful informative slow-paced
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In October of 1888, Albert Goodwill Spalding—baseball star, sporting-goods magnate, promotional genius, serial fabulist—departed Chicago on a trip that would take him and two baseball teams on a journey clear around the globe. Their mission, close...

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