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The Rank and File of 19th Century Major League Baseball

Author : David Nemec
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781784022020
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Rank and File of 19th Century Major League Baseball written by David Nemec and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this volume, David Nemec completes his remarkable trilogy of 19th-century baseball biographies, covering every major league player, manager, umpire, owner and league official. It provides in-depth information on many figures unknown to most historians. Each detailed entry includes vital statistics, peer-driven analysis of baseball-related skills, and an overview of the individuals role in the game. Also chronicled are players first and last major league games, most important achievements, movements from team to team, and much more. By bringing attention to these overlooked baseball personalities, this reference work immeasurably enriches our knowledge of 19th century major league baseball.

The Rank and File of 19th Century Major League Baseball

Author : David Nemec
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786490446
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Rank and File of 19th Century Major League Baseball written by David Nemec and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this volume, David Nemec completes his remarkable trilogy of 19th-century baseball biographies, covering every major league player, manager, umpire, owner and league official. It provides in-depth information on many figures unknown to most historians. Each detailed entry includes vital statistics, peer-driven analysis of baseball-related skills, and an overview of the individual's role in the game. Also chronicled are players' first and last major league games, most important achievements, movements from team to team, and much more. By bringing attention to these overlooked baseball personalities, this reference work immeasurably enriches our knowledge of 19th century major league baseball.

Great Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-century Major League Baseball

Author : David Nemec
Publisher : Dutton Adult
ISBN 13 : 9781556115004
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Great Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-century Major League Baseball written by David Nemec and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1997 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers major league baseball from 1871 to 1900, and provides team rosters, player statistics, season summaries, rule changes, and ball park descriptions

Indiana-Born Major League Baseball Players

Author : Pete Cava
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078649901X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Indiana-Born Major League Baseball Players written by Pete Cava and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indiana boasts a rich baseball tradition, with 10 native sons enshrined in Cooperstown. This biographical dictionary provides a close look at the lives of all 364 Hoosier big leaguers, who include New York City's first baseball superstar; the first rookie pitcher to win three games in a World Series; the man who caught most of Cy Young's record 511 career wins; one of the game's first star relievers; the player who held the record for consecutive games played before Lou Gehrig; an obscure infielder mentioned in Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strip; baseball's only one-legged pitcher; Indiana's first Mr. Basketball, who became one of baseball's greatest pinch-hitters; the first African American to play for the Cincinnati Reds; the only pitcher to throw a perfect game in the World Series; the skipper of the 1969 "Miracle Mets"; the pitcher for whom a ground-breaking surgical procedure is named; and the only two men to have played in both the World Series and the Final Four of the NCAA Basketball Tournament.

Baseball's Wildest Season

Author : William J. Ryczek
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476691142
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Baseball's Wildest Season written by William J. Ryczek and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-03-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the 1883 baseball season, things looked rosy--attendance had skyrocketed and the National League and American Association were at peace. A year later, however, the sport was in total disarray. A third major league, the Union Association, had come on the scene and waged a bitter war that rocked the baseball world. By the dawn of the 1885 season, the UA had dissolved in a sea of red ink, the AA had dropped four teams, and the minor leagues were desperately hoping to make it through the season. Amid the chaos of 1884 were some historic moments. Iron-man pitcher Hoss Radbourn won 59 games and led the Providence Grays to victory over the New York Metropolitans in the first World Series. Fleet Walker broke baseball's first color line. There were a record eight no-hitters and a cast of fascinating figures--some famous, some lost to history--like Radbourn, Hustling Horace Phillips, Dan O'Leary, and Edward (The Only) Nolan. This book tells the story of the momentous yet overshadowed 1884 season.

Ted Sullivan, Barnacle of Baseball

Author : Pat O’Neill
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476642605
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Ted Sullivan, Barnacle of Baseball written by Pat O’Neill and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his day, perhaps no one in baseball was better known than Irish-born Timothy Paul "Ted" Sullivan. For 50 years, America's sportswriters sang his praises, genuflected to his genius and bought his blarney by the barrel. Damon Runyon dubbed him "The Celebrated Carpetbagger of Baseball." Cunning, fast-talking, witty and sober, Sullivan was the game's first player agent, a groundbreaking scout who pulled future Hall of Famers from the bushes, an author, a playwright and a baseball evangelist who promoted the game across five continents. He coined the term "fan" and was among the first to suggest the designated hitter--because pitchers were "a lot of whippoorwill swingers." But he was also a convert to the Jim Crow attitudes of his day--black ballplayers were unimaginable to him. Unearthing thousands of contemporaneous newspaper accounts, this first exhaustive biography of "Hustlin'" Ted Sullivan recounts the life and career of one of the greatest hucksters in the history of the game.

The Great Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Major League Baseball

Author : David Nemec
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817314997
Total Pages : 1057 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Great Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Major League Baseball written by David Nemec and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2006-06-04 with total page 1057 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authoritative compendium of facts, statistics, photographs, and analysis that defines baseball in its formative first decades This comprehensive reference work covers the early years of major league baseball from the first game—May 4, 1871, a 2-0 victory for the Fort Wayne Kekiongas over the visiting Cleveland Forest City team—through the 1900 season. Baseball historian David Nemec presents complete team rosters and detailed player, manager, and umpire information, with a wealth of statistics to warm a fan’s heart. Sidebars cover a variety of topics, from oddities—the team that had the best record but finished second—to analyses of why Cleveland didn’t win any pennants in the 1890s. Additional benefits include dozens of rare illustrations and narrative accounts of each year’s pennant race. Nemec also carefully charts the rule changes from year to year as the game developed by fits and starts to formulate the modern rules. The result is an essential work of reference and at the same time a treasury of baseball history. This new edition adds much material unearthed since the first edition, fills gaps, and corrects errors, while presenting a number of new stories and fascinating details. David Nemec began the lifetime labor that helped produced this work in 1954 and admits it may never end, as there always will be some obscure player whose birth date has not yet been found. Until perfection is achieved, this work offers state-of-the-art accuracy and detail beyond that supplied by even modern baseball encyclopedias. As Casey Stengel, who was born during this era, was wont to say, “you could look it up.” Now you can.

Baseball in the Mahoning Valley

Author : Paul M. Kovach
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146715198X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Baseball in the Mahoning Valley written by Paul M. Kovach and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the horn in the Mahoning Valley The history of baseball in Ohio's Mahoning Valley has been, to say the least, eventful. Murder, the Civil War, the hot dog, a presidential assassination and one of the deadliest known volcanic eruptions all shaped America's pastime in the Valley. African American baseball pioneer and Hall of Fame inductee Bud Fowler began his professional baseball career in the area, and the first ceremonial celebrity first pitch came from the arm of a prominent local. The area also contributed to Cleveland professional ballclubs like the enigmatic 1883 Blues and the 2016 Believeland Indians, which included numerous players from the Mahoning Valley Scrappers, a minor-league team with its own rich heritage. Digging up little-known facts about Fowler and sundry other colorful stories, local author and creator of Eastwood Field's Days Gone By exhibit PM Kovach celebrates the proud history of baseball in northeast Ohio.

Inventing Baseball

Author : Bill Felber
Publisher : SABR, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1933599421
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Inventing Baseball written by Bill Felber and published by SABR, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A project of SABR's Nineteenth Century Committee, INVENTING BASEBALL brings to life the greatest games to be played in the game's early years. From the "prisoner of war" game that took place among captive Union soldiers during the Civil War, to the first intercollegiate game (Amherst versus Williams), to the first professional no-hitter, the games in this volume span 1833–1900 and detail the athletic exploits of such players as Cap Anson, Moses "Fleetwood" Walker, Charlie Comiskey, Mike "King" Kelly, and John Montgomery Ward.

Boom and Bust in St. Louis

Author : Jon David Cash
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476638969
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Boom and Bust in St. Louis written by Jon David Cash and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The St. Louis Cardinals, despite winning more World Series than any Major League franchise except for the New York Yankees, have seen their share of dry spells when they were shut out of the postseason. Like the American economy, the Cardinals have seen their fortunes cycle through prolonged ups and downs, with booms in 1885-1888, 1926-1946, 1964-1968, 1982-1987 and 1996-2011, and busts in 1889-1925, 1947-1963, 1969-1981 and 1988-1995. Drawing on years of research, this book chronicles the Cardinals' periods of success and failure and explains the reasons behind them.

Before They Were the Cubs

Author : Jack Bales
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476674671
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Before They Were the Cubs written by Jack Bales and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1869, the Chicago Cubs are a charter member of the National League and the last remaining of the eight original league clubs still playing in the city in which the franchise started. Drawing on newspaper articles, books and archival records, the author chronicles the team's early years. He describes the club's planning stages of 1868; covers the decades when the ballplayers were variously called White Stockings, Colts, and Orphans; and relates how a sportswriter first referred to the young players as Cubs in the March 27, 1902, issue of the Chicago Daily News. Reprinted selections from firsthand accounts provide a colorful narrative of baseball in 19th-century America, as well as a documentary history of the Chicago team and its members before they were the Cubs.

Historical Dictionary of Baseball

Author : Lyle Spatz
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810879549
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Baseball written by Lyle Spatz and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-12-21 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dating back to 1869 as an organized professional sport, the game of baseball is not only the oldest professional sport in North America, but also symbolizes much more. Walt Whitman described it as “our game, the American game,” and George Will compared calling baseball “just a game” to the Grand Canyon being “just a hole.” Countless others have called baseball “the most elegant game,” and to those who have played it, it’s life. The Historical Dictionary of Baseball is primarily devoted to the major leagues it also includes entries on the minor leagues, the Negro Leagues, women’s baseball, baseball in various other countries, and other non-major league related topics. It traces baseball, in general, and these topics individually, from their beginnings up to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 900 cross-referenced entries on the roles of the players on the field—batters, pitchers, fielders—as well as non-playing personnel—general managers, managers, coaches, and umpires. There are also entries for individual teams and leagues, stadiums and ballparks, the role of the draft and reserve clause, and baseball’s rules, and statistical categories. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the sport of baseball.

The Great Baseball Revolt

Author : Robert B. Ross
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803294786
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Great Baseball Revolt written by Robert B. Ross and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Players League, formed in 1890, was a short-lived professional baseball league controlled and owned in part by the players themselves, a response to the National League's salary cap and "reserve rule," which bound players for life to one particular team. Led by John Montgomery Ward, the Players League was a star-studded group that included most of the best players of the National League, who bolted not only to gain control of their wages but also to share ownership of the teams. Lasting only a year, the league impacted both the professional sports and the labor politics of athletes and nonathletes alike. The Great Baseball Revolt is a historic overview of the rise and fall of the Players League, which fielded teams in Boston, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh. Though it marketed itself as a working-class league, the players were underfunded and had to turn to wealthy capitalists for much of their startup costs, including the new ballparks. It was in this context that the league intersected with the organized labor movement, and in many ways challenged by organized labor to be by and for the people. In its only season, the Players League outdrew the National League in fan attendance. But when the National League overinflated its numbers and profits, the Players League backers pulled out. The Great Baseball Revolt brings to life a compelling cast of characters and a mostly forgotten but important time in professional sports when labor politics affected both athletes and nonathletes.

The Detroit Wolverines

Author : Brian Martin
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476665079
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Detroit Wolverines written by Brian Martin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Detroit Tigers were founding members of the American League and have been the Motor City's team for more than a century. But the Wolverines were the city's first major league club, playing in the National League beginning in 1881 and capturing the pennant in 1887. Playing in what was then one of the best ballparks in America, during an era when Detroit was known as the "Paris of the West," the team battled hostile National League owners and struggled with a fickle fan base to become world champions, before financial woes led to their being disbanded in 1888. This first-ever history of the Wolverines covers the team's rise and abrupt fall and the powerful men behind it.

Baseball's Union Association

Author : Justin Mckinney
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476680604
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Baseball's Union Association written by Justin Mckinney and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hastily formed in 1883 as a rival, third major league, the Union Association upset the moguls of the baseball world and disrupted the status quo. Backed by Henry V. Lucas, an impetuous 26-year-old millionaire from St. Louis, the UA existed for one chaotic season in 1884. This first full-length history of the Union Association tells the captivating story of the league's brief and enigmatic existence. Lucas recruited a wild mix of disgruntled stars, misfits, crooks, has-beens, drunks, and the occasional spectator--along with a future star or two. The result was a bizarre experiment that sowed both turmoil and hope before fading into oblivion.

Before They Were Cardinals

Author : Jon David Cash
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826263704
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Before They Were Cardinals written by Jon David Cash and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark McGwire, Ozzie Smith, Lou Brock. These famous Cardinals are known by baseball fans around the world. But who and what were the predecessors of these modern-day players and their team? In Before They Were Cardinals, Jon David Cash examines the infancy of major-league baseball in St. Louis during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. His in-depth analysis begins with an exploration of the factors that motivated civic leaders to form the city's first major-league ball club. Cash delves into the economic trade rivalry between Chicago and St. Louis and examines how St. Louis's attempt to compete with Chicago led to the formation of the St. Louis Brown Stockings in 1875. He then explains why, three years later, despite its initial success, St. Louis baseball quickly vanished from the big-league map. St. Louis baseball was revived with the arrival of German immigrant saloon owner Chris Von der Ahe. Cash explains how Von der Ahe, originally only interested in concession rights, purchased a controlling interest in the Brown Stockings. His riveting account follows the team after Von der Ahe's purchase, from the formation of the American Association, to its merger in 1891 with the rival National League. He chronicles Von der Ahe's monetary downturn, and the club's decline as well, following the merger. Before They Were Cardinals provides vivid portraits of the ball players and the participants involved in the baseball war between the National League and the American Association. Cash points out significant differences, such as Sunday games and beer sales, between the two Leagues. In addition, excerpts taken from Chicago and St. Louis newspapers make the on-field contests and off-field rivalries come alive. Cash concludes this lively historical narrative with an appendix that traces the issue of race in baseball during this period. The excesses of modern-day baseball--players jumping contracts or holding out for more money, gambling on games, and drinking to excess; owners stealing players and breaking agreements--were all present in the nineteenth-century sport. Players were seen then, as they are now, as an embodiment of their community. This timely treatment of a fascinating period in St. Louis baseball history will appeal to both baseball aficionados and those who want to understand the history of baseball itself.

Nineteenth Century Baseball

Author : Marshall D. Wright
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth Century Baseball written by Marshall D. Wright and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1996 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 1871, ten of the United States' most powerful professional baseball clubs met in Brooklyn, New York. Out of that meeting came the sport's first major league: the National Association of Professional Baseball Players. The Philadelphia Athletics, with a record of 21-7, captured the new circuit's first championship. From the National Association through the American League's inaugural season in the final year of the century, this work is a year-by-year statistical history of the teams and players of the nineteenth century's major leagues. The teams are listed by league, with full rosters and complete statistics for each player. An introductory section for each year places the league in historical perspective. Exhaustive team and player indexes are also included.