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by Lisa Jonsson (Author)
In the closing years of the nineteenth century, Sacramento was a city of gaslight and grit-its streets lined with gambling halls, saloons, and the restless energy of a place still inventing itself. At the center of it stood Ed Kripp: gambler, promoter, and architect of one of California's earliest baseball dynasties.
The Gilt Edge of Ambition follows Kripp's rise as he led his club to an unprecedented run of pennants and built Buffalo Park; navigating a world where deals were struck in back rooms and fortunes turned overnight. Baseball, in this moment, was not yet a settled institution-it was spectacle, business, and risk, all at once.
As the twentieth century approached and the glow of gas lamps gave way to a more ordered age, the game-and the city-began to change. Informal power gave way to structure, and the chaotic world that had made Kripp possible slowly receded.
Blending sports history with urban history, The Gilt Edge of Ambition situates early baseball within the broader transformations of the Gilded Age-an era of expansion, corruption, and institutional change. It traces the shift from informal networks and personal authority to structured leagues and permanent systems, showing how one man's ambition both advanced and tested the limits of that emerging order.
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by Lisa Jonsson (Author)
In the closing years of the nineteenth century, Sacramento was a city of gaslight and grit-its streets lined with gambling halls, saloons, and the restless energy of a place still inventing itself. At the center of it stood Ed Kripp: gambler, promoter, and architect of one of California's earliest baseball dynasties.
The Gilt Edge of Ambition follows Kripp's rise as he led his club to an unprecedented run of pennants and built Buffalo Park; navigating a world where deals were struck in back rooms and fortunes turned overnight. Baseball, in this moment, was not yet a settled institution-it was spectacle, business, and risk, all at once.
As the twentieth century approached and the glow of gas lamps gave way to a more ordered age, the game-and the city-began to change. Informal power gave way to structure, and the chaotic world that had made Kripp possible slowly receded.
Blending sports history with urban history, The Gilt Edge of Ambition situates early baseball within the broader transformations of the Gilded Age-an era of expansion, corruption, and institutional change. It traces the shift from informal networks and personal authority to structured leagues and permanent systems, showing how one man's ambition both advanced and tested the limits of that emerging order.
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