City Directory of Decatur, Illinois. 1871-72
Author : Decatur (Ill.)
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Page : 167 pages
File Size : 48,93 MB
Release : 1871
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Decatur (Ill.)
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Page : 167 pages
File Size : 48,93 MB
Release : 1871
Category : Great Britain
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Author : C. H. Fuller
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Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 1871
Category : Decatur (Ill.)
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Author : Wiggins & Co
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Page : 172 pages
File Size : 35,14 MB
Release : 1871
Category : Decatur (Ill.)
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Page : 2148 pages
File Size : 19,22 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Cleveland (Ohio)
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Author : Robert D. Sampson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 39,43 MB
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0252054342
Baseball’s spread across Illinois paralleled the sport’s explosive growth in other parts of the country. Robert D. Sampson taps a wealth of archival research to transport readers to an era when an epidemic of “base ball on the brain” raged from Alton to Woodstock. Focusing on the years 1865 to 1869, Sampson offers a vivid portrait of a game where local teams and civic ambition went hand in hand and teams of paid professionals displaced gentlemen’s clubs devoted to sporting fair play. This preoccupation with competition sparked rules disputes and controversies over imported players while the game itself mirrored society by excluding Black Americans and women. The new era nonetheless brought out paying crowds to watch the Rock Island Lively Turtles, Fairfield Snails, and other teams take the field up and down the state. A first-ever history of early baseball in Illinois, Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins adds the Prairie State game’s unique shadings and colorful stories to the history of the national pastime.
Author : Westminster College (Fulton, Mo.)
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Page : 124 pages
File Size : 33,28 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Fulton (Mo.)
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1786 pages
File Size : 18,29 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Copyright
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Author : Clarke, firm, booksellers, Cincinnati
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Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,18 MB
Release : 1878
Category : America
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Page : 84 pages
File Size : 33,57 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Photographers
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Author : R.L. Polk & Co
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Page : 3568 pages
File Size : 32,4 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
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