Baseball Timeline Pre 1876

Author : Brian Aldridge
Publisher : Classic Sports Journal
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball Timeline: Pre 1876 written by Brian Aldridge and published by Classic Sports Journal. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1820s, what we call baseball today was first known as Rounders, Town Ball, Round Ball, and Base Ball before the two words were combined as one. Researchers and historians have noted that, in some form, the sport was even played in the late 1700s. Rounders: was first played by English schoolchildren and included a batter (the striker), a pitcher, 4 bases, and an infield in the shape of diamond. When known as Town Ball or Round Ball, the rules varied, as did the number of players each team could field. Teams playing Town Ball, for instance, could put 20-50 in the field. This game (at least a form of it) began in the northeast US, where non-athletes such as dairy workers, clerks, lawyers, and plumbers played their games on wheat fields and in town squares. As the sport grew in popularity, city-based teams formed and up to 24 competed with one another. By the mid-1850s, the best known and most successful team was the Eckfords (Brooklyn, NY). From 1839-1869, baseball abided by a code of ethics, meaning that the game was to be played by amateurs, not paid athletes. Then came along the Cincinnati Reds and the Boston Red Sox (the color red signified the color of the socks they wore) - two teams whose players were openly paid for their efforts. Check out the rules, the terms (what's revolving, hippodroming, or chicagoed mean?), and the many reasons why MLB's oldest league, the National League, was formed.

Author : Glenn Dickey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780812825770
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of National League Baseball Since 1876 written by Glenn Dickey and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Glenn Dickey
Publisher : Scarborough House
ISBN 13 : 9780812828184
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of National League Baseball, Since 1876 (updated) written by Glenn Dickey and published by Scarborough House. This book was released on 1982 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anecdotes, vintage photographs, and rare interviews cover the entire history of baseball, from the days of five strikes and the "Fix," through integration and expansion, to big-business baseball

Author : Don Jensen
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403967688
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Timeline History of Baseball written by Don Jensen and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The illustrated and colorfully designed Timeline History of Baseball provides hundreds of fascinating details about the development of the national pastime in a fun and easy-to-use format."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Burt Solomon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780380782918
Total Pages : 1118 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Baseball Timeline written by Burt Solomon and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From baseball's humble beginnings to its modern-day pyrotechnics, this comprehensive, one-of-a-kind, and endlessly entertaining volume contains stats and records, amazing anecdotes, and recreations of great games and heroic events--from pre-season to post-season and all the glory days in between.

Author : Neil W. Macdonald
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786417551
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The League That Lasted written by Neil W. Macdonald and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-05-18 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1870s, baseball was chaos, mired in mismanagement and corruption. William Hulbert, the owner of Chicago's National Association team, believed that a league run efficiently with honest competition would survive and flourish. Hulbert, relying on his pragmatic philosophy of "molasses now, vinegar later" and working with his prize recruit Albert Spalding, founded the National League in 1876. That inaugural season of the National League is chronicled in this heavily documented work. The league fell far short of Hulbert's dreams in its first season, but he stuck to his belief that integrity would win out in the end. He not only prohibited Sunday baseball and the sale and consumption of alcohol within the league's ballparks, but ousted two teams--New York and Philadelphia--from the league because they failed to meet their obligation to finish out the season. Despite the setbacks, scandals, and considerable opposition, all of which are thoroughly covered here, the National League survived its first year.

Author : Mark Rucker
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781531617769
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 19th Century Baseball in Chicago written by Mark Rucker and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chicago area today hosts two of the most historic major league franchises and half a dozen minor or independent league teams. Baseball's roots run deep in the Windy City. Indeed, it was Chicago businessman William "I'd rather be a lamp-post in Chicago than a millionaire in any other city" Hulbert, who, according to baseball lore, staged the coup that in 1876 would put the National League on the map. The Chicago White Stockings (now ironically called the Cubs) were one of eight charter members, winning the inaugural NL Championship with such legendary names as A.G. Spalding, "Cap" Anson, and Roscoe Barnes. But The National Pastime arrived in Chicago well before the 1876 season, as is proven in this fascinating new book, 19th Century Baseball in Chicago, illustrated with over 150 vintage images.Any local fan of the modern game-whether the action takes place at the "Friendly Confines," 35th & Shields, or the cozy setting of a minor league ballpark out in Kane or suburban Cook County-will enjoy the wealth of information offered in 19th Century Baseball in Chicago.

Author : David L. Fleitz
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786480610
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghosts in the Gallery at Cooperstown written by David L. Fleitz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An irony of enshrinement at the baseball Hall of Fame is that it's no guarantee of lasting name recognition. The sport's history stretches too far back, as today fans scratch their heads about athletes and owners who were among the most celebrated public figures of their time. Who was more renowned than George Wright, baseball's greatest star during the transition from amateur to professional play? Who was more feared than Big Dan Brouthers? Maybe it was Amos Rusie, who threw so hard that some say the rules makers increased the pitching distance just to make things fair. Of the 256 players, managers and executives in the Hall of Fame, the names that are known well--Ty Cobb, Connie Mack, Willie Mays--account for a small minority. This book contains biographical and statistical information on 16 previously overlooked Hall of Famers, including Morgan G. Bulkeley, Candy Cummings, Roger Bresnahan, Jack Chesbro, Jesse Burkett, Kid Nichols, Bobby Wallace, John Clarkson, Elmer Flick, Eppa Rixey, Jake Beckley, Roger Connor, Vic Willis, Willie Wells, Frank Selee, and Bid McPhee. These men, selections of the oft-criticized Veterans Committee, all enjoyed remarkable careers--and were themselves remarkable stories, as the author discovered.

Author : Warren Jay Goldstein
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801471478
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playing for Keeps written by Warren Jay Goldstein and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1850s organized baseball was a club-based fraternal sport thriving in the cultures of respectable artisans, clerks and shopkeepers, and middle-class sportsmen. Two decades later it had become an entertainment business run by owners and managers, depending on gate receipts and the increasingly disciplined labor of skilled player-employees. Playing for Keeps is an insightful, in-depth account of the game that became America's premier spectator sport for nearly a century. Reconstructing the culture and experience of early baseball through a careful reading of the sporting press, baseball guides, and the correspondence of the player-manager Harry Wright, Warren Goldstein discovers the origins of many modern controversies during the game's earliest decades. The 20th Anniversary Edition of Goldstein's classic includes information about the changes that have occurred in the history of the sport since the 1980s and an account of his experience as a scholarly consultant during the production of Ken Burns's Baseball.

Author : Scott Simkus
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613748167
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outsider Baseball written by Scott Simkus and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outsider Baseball is the story of a forgotten world, where independent professional ball clubs zig-zagged across America, plying their trade in big cities and small villages alike. Included among the former and future major leaguers were mercenaries, scalawags, and outcasts. This is where Babe Ruth, Rube Waddell, and John McGraw crossed bats with the Cuban Stars, Tokyo Giants, Brooklyn Bushwicks, dozens of famous Negro league teams, and novelty acts such as the House of David and Bloomer Girls. Legends emerged in this alternate baseball universe and author Scott Simkus sets out to share their stories and use a critical lens to separate fact from fiction. Written in a gritty prose style, Outsider Baseball combines meticulous research with modern analytics, opening the door to an unforgettable funhouse of baseball history. Scott Simkus is the founder and editor of the Outsider Baseball Bulletin. He is the winner of a research award from the Society of American Baseball Research for his work on the Negro League Database.