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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Doggett's New-York City Directory, for ...
Author: Doggett's New York City Directory
Author: How Baseball Happened
Author: Thomas W. GilbertPublisher: Godine+ORM
ISBN: 1567926886
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The untold story of baseball’s nineteenth-century origins: “a delightful look at a young nation creating a pastime that was love from the first crack of the bat” (Paul Dickson, The Wall Street Journal). You may have heard that Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright invented baseball. Neither did. You may have been told that a club called the Knickerbockers played the first baseball game in 1846. They didn’t. Perhaps you’ve read that baseball’s color line was first crossed by Jackie Robinson in 1947. Nope. Baseball’s true founders don’t have plaques in Cooperstown. They were hundreds of uncredited, ordinary people who played without gloves, facemasks, or performance incentives. Unlike today’s pro athletes, they lived full lives outside of sports. They worked, built businesses, and fought against the South in the Civil War. In this myth-busting history, Thomas W. Gilbert reveals the true beginnings of baseball. Through newspaper accounts, diaries, and other accounts, he explains how it evolved through the mid-nineteenth century into a modern sport of championships, media coverage, and famous stars—all before the first professional league was formed in 1871. Winner of the Casey Award: Best Baseball Book of the Year
Trow's New York City Directory
Author: Doggett's New York City Directory, for 1850-1851
Author: Musical Instrument Makers of New York
Author: Nancy GrocePublisher: Pendragon Press
ISBN: 9780918728975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The history of any skilled urban trade is ultimately tied to the growth and development of the city in which it is located. From its humble eighteenth-century beginnings, instrument making grew to be one of New York City's most sizable and important trades. By the 1840s, the city was the largest producer of instruments in the Western Hemisphere, and, in the decades that followed, designs and innovations pioneered by New York artisans influenced and inspired instrument makers throughout the world. Although many of the these instruments survive in American museums, there existed no comprehensive guide to their makers. Nancy Groce's biographical dictionary chronicles all of these master craftsmen in colorful detail, from the obscure work of Geoffry Stafford in 1691, to the zenith of the 1890s, and on to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
DOGGETT'S NEW-YORK CITY DIRECTORY, FOR 1845 AND 1846
Author: JOHN DOGGETT. JR.Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033892053
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Doggett's New York City Directory
Author: Global Exchanges
Author: Ludovic TournèsPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1785337033
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Exchanges between different cultures and institutions of learning have taken place for centuries, but it was only in the twentieth century that such efforts evolved into formal programs that received focused attention from nation-states, empires and international organizations. Global Exchanges provides a wide-ranging overview of this underresearched topic, examining the scope, scale and evolution of organized exchanges around the globe through the twentieth century. In doing so it dramatically reveals the true extent of organized exchange and its essential contribution for knowledge transfer, cultural interchange, and the formation of global networks so often taken for granted today.
The Trow City Directory Co.'s, Formerly Wilson's, Copartnership and Corporation Directory of New York City
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Category : Business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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