Ghosts In The Gallery At Cooperstown

Author : David L. Fleitz
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786480629
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Ghosts in the Gallery written by David L. Fleitz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 263 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, a follow-up to Ghosts in the Gallery at Cooperstown (2004), provides chapter-length biographies on 16 Hall of Famers from baseball's distant past. Award-winning biographer David Fleitz covers in detail the lives and careers of Negro League (Hilton Smith) and pre-Negro League greats (Cristobal Torriente and Smokey Joe Williams), big leaguers from the 19th century (Wright, Brouthers, Rusie, Mickey Welch, Tommy McCarthy, Tim Keefe, Joe Kelley, Billy Hamilton, and Sam Thompson) and stars from the deadball era through the Second World War (Jimmy Collins, Sam Rice, Kiki Cuyler, Arky Vaughan). For some, it is the first time their stories appear in print.

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 : David L. Fleitz
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476602514
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kid Nichols written by David L. Fleitz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 39 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 McFarland E-Single contains biographical and statistical information on Kid Nichols, who enjoyed a remarkable career--and was a remarkable story, as the author discovered. This E-Single originally appeared in Ghosts in the Gallery at Cooperstown as Chapter 6.

Author : David L. Fleitz
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476602522
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Clarkson written by David L. Fleitz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 43 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 McFarland E-Single contains biographical and statistical information on John Clarkson, who enjoyed a remarkable career--and was a remarkable story, as the author discovered. This E-Single originally appeared in Ghosts in the Gallery at Cooperstown as Chapter 8.

Author : David L. Fleitz
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476602506
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jack Chesbro written by David L. Fleitz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 43 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 McFarland E-Single contains biographical and statistical information on Jack Chesbro, who enjoyed a remarkable career--and was a remarkable story, as the author discovered. This E-Single originally appeared in Ghosts in the Gallery at Cooperstown as Chapter 4.

Author : Barbara Brooks Wallace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781419356926
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghosts in the Gallery written by Barbara Brooks Wallace and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of Winn-Dixie

Author : James Reynolds
Publisher : New York : Creative Age Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gallery of Ghosts written by James Reynolds and published by New York : Creative Age Press. This book was released on 1949 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David L. Fleitz
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476650500
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schnozz written by David L. Fleitz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most popular players in Cincinnati Reds history, Ernie "Schnozz" Lombardi played 1931-1947 as an eight-time All-Star catcher. A big man with huge hands, a cannon for an arm and a namesake nose, he held two National League batting titles and a career average of .306. Yet he was so famously slow a runner that the infielders took to the outfield, where they could still throw him out. Fastballs not thrown hard enough were caught barehanded and fired back to the mound. One unfortunate play in the 1939 World Series dogged Lombardi for the rest of his life and kept him from the Hall of Fame until long after his death. This first full-length biography gives a complete account of this outstanding player.

Author : Dennis Corcoran
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786491477
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Induction Day at Cooperstown written by Dennis Corcoran and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly every year since 1939, baseball's most outstanding players, umpires, pioneers and executives have been enshrined at Cooperstown in a public ceremony attracting thousands of fans from across (and sometimes beyond) the United States. Whether conferred by the Baseball Writers Association of America, the Veterans Committee, or in the case of 17 Negro League greats in 2006, an ad hoc committee of historians, Hall of Fame membership is the game's highest honor. This book covers the origins and history of the Hall of Fame museum and its election process, provides general information on each year's class and induction ceremony, and includes concise biographical and career discussion for every Hall of Famer, as well as commentary on his (Effa Manley is the lone female) path to election, and highlights of his speech.

Author : Lynda Lee Macken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780975524473
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghosts of Central New York written by Lynda Lee Macken and published by . This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York's heartland is rife with ghosts and tales of hauntings. Spirits skulk about burial grounds, supernatural strains of piano music resound and some specters strike out in a bowling hall. Such are the haunted happenings in the central region of New York State. Populated with phantoms of those who helped shape the landscape, Cooperstown, Herkimer, Oriskany, Rome and Syracuse are a few of the places where influential and heroic spirits still reside. Experience an unearthly journey through eerie forts, spirited inns and possessed museums. Uncover the buried secrets of battlefields and B & Bs. Bear witness to long-gone eras by visiting with the Ghosts of Central New York.