{"product_id":"playing-for-keeps-9780801418297","title":"Playing for Keeps","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Warren Jay Goldstein\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Baseball - History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1850s organized baseball was a club-based fraternal sport thriving in the cultures of respectable artisans, clerks and shopkeepers, and middle-class sportsmen. Two decades later it had become an entertainment business run by owners and managers, depending on gate receipts and the increasingly disciplined labor of skilled player-employees. Playing for Keeps is an insightful, in-depth account of the game that became America's premier spectator sport for nearly a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReconstructing the culture and experience of early baseball through a careful reading of the sporting press, baseball guides, and the correspondence of the player-manager Harry Wright, Warren Goldstein discovers the origins of many modern controversies during the game's earliest decades.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47591962607767,"sku":"9780801418297","price":7057.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780801418297.webp?v=1774975413","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/playing-for-keeps-9780801418297","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}