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The Gilt Edge of Ambition is a narrative history of power, sport, and risk in turn-of-the-century California, centered on the rise and fall of Sacramento's forgotten professional baseball empire. At its center stands Edward L. Kripp-a gambler, entrepreneur, and baseball magnate who helped organize the California League and later built Sacramento's Buffalo Park-whose career reveals how early professional baseball took shape at the volatile intersection of money, politics, and vice.
Drawing on contemporary newspaper coverage, archival records, and period correspondence, the book reconstructs the game before it was sanitized into a national pastime: a world of poolrooms, race betting, telegraph wires, and backroom deals, where fragile alliances linked city leaders, sporting men, and the machinery of speculation. Kripp's "Gilt Edge" clubs did more than win games-they helped define how baseball would function as a business, a spectacle, and a civic enterprise.
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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