Ambassadors in Pinstripes: The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire by Thomas W. Zeiler

Ambassadors in Pinstripes: The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire

Thomas W. Zeiler

216 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history sports
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Inspired and led by sporting magnate Albert Goodwill Spalding, two teams of baseball players circled the globe for six months in 1888-1889 competing in such far away destinations as Australia, Sri Lanka and Egypt. These players, however, represent...

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