Ebook: Baseball in Blue and Gray: the National Pastime during the Civil War

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE: The Rise of Baseball; CHAPTER TWO: Battlefront; CHAPTER THREE: Home Front; CHAPTER FOUR: Players and Clubs; CHAPTER FIVE: Championship Competition and Commercialization; CHAPTER SIX: The War's Legacy; EPILOGUE; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY; INDEX.;During the Civil War, Americans from homefront to battlefront played baseball as never before. While soldiers slaughtered each other over the country's fate, players and fans struggled over the form of the national pastime. George Kirsch gives us a color commentary of the growth and transformation of baseball during the Civil War. He shows that the game was a vital part of the lives of many a soldier and civilian--and that baseball's popularity had everything to do with surging American nationalism. By 1860, baseball was poised to emerge as the American sport. Clubs in northeastern a.