Baseball In 1889

Author : Daniel Merle Pearson
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879726195
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball in 1889 written by Daniel Merle Pearson and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "National League players planned revolt as the crowds swelled, hoping to take advantage of baseball's growing popularity. The season became, as one sportswriter said, something approaching a Lobster-Frankenstein nightmare."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Jean-Pierre Caillault
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786482567
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tale of Four Cities written by Jean-Pierre Caillault and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1889 baseball season is unique in the history of baseball. Both leagues--the veteran National League and the upstart American Association--featured thrilling pennant races that were not decided until the final day of the season. There was excitement off the field as well; the players' union (known then as "the Brotherhood") sowed the seeds of the most ambitious player revolt in baseball history. This work presents accounts from the major newspapers of each of the four teams' cities--the New York Times, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the Boston Herald, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch--to capture the day-by-day excitement of the 1889 pennant race and the passion that the press and public had for baseball. The National League race pitted the world champion New York Giants against the Boston Beaneaters--teams that accounted for 10 Hall of Famers and three players that spearheaded the player revolt. The American Association race was just as exciting and even more controversial, as team presidents Chris Von der Ahe of the St. Louis Browns and Charles H. Byrne of the Brooklyn Bridegrooms hated each other passionately and Von der Ahe often clashed with his own players.

Author : Various
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1889 written by Various and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1889" by Various. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Robert Allan Bauer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948478106
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outside the Lines of Gilded Age Baseball written by Robert Allan Bauer and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the 1889 baseball season, the players of the National League, furious over their treatment by NL owners, decided to secede from the National League and start their own rival league, the Players League. Their league lasted only one season, but its formation remains one of the seminal events in understanding the trajectory of nineteenth-century baseball. Why is this true? By learning why the players of the NL elected to strike out on their own, we gain insight into some of the critical issues facing the game in the late 1880s, particularly the relationship between team owners and their players. However, that's not all. Had a few things gone differently, the Players League might have succeeded. Had it done so, the entire history of major league baseball would have been vastly different. Therefore, understanding the motivations of the players gives us a glimpse of both what was, and what might have been. Put simply, baseball history in the 1890s is incomprehensible without knowledge of the 1890 Players League and how it began.

Author : New York Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spalding Baseball Collection written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Len Feder
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781502925930
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book LF Baseball 1885-1889 written by Len Feder and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Players from 1885 through 1889 got together to play on my field of dreams. They were divided into 16 teams and played out a 75 game schedule.

Author : Henry Chadwick
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781508762072
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1889 written by Henry Chadwick and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Spalding's Base Ball Guide" again greets the base ball public with the official records of America's national game. First issued in 1877, it has grown in popularity, has been enlarged and improved from year to year, and is now the recognized authority upon base ball matters. The statistics contained in the "Guide" can be relied upon, nearly all of them having been compiled from official records.

Author : Robert B. Ross
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803294786
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( 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.

Author : Daniel Merle Pearson
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball in 1889 written by Daniel Merle Pearson and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "National League players planned revolt as the crowds swelled, hoping to take advantage of baseball's growing popularity. The season became, as one sportswriter said, something approaching a Lobster-Frankenstein nightmare."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : David W. Zang
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803299139
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fleet Walker's Divided Heart written by David W. Zang and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moses Fleetwood Walker was the first black American to play baseball in a major league. He achieved college baseball stardom at Oberlin College in the 1880s. Teammates as well as opponents harassed him; Cap Anson, the Chicago White Stockings star, is blamed for driving Walker and the few other blacks in the major leagues out of the game, but he could not have done so alone. A gifted athlete, inventor, civil rights activist, author, and entrepreneur, Walker lived precariously along America’s racial fault lines. He died in 1924, thwarted in ambition and talent and frustrated by both the American dream and the national pastime.