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Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball, 20th Anniversary Edition (20th Edition) by Professor Warren Goldstein, Warren Jay Goldstein Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-8014-7508-2 / 0801475082 ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-7508-5 / 9780801475085 In 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 increas |