Outlaw League

Author : Robert Foust
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1662437129
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outlaw League written by Robert Foust and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While this book is basically a satirical look at baseball, it touches on other subjects along the way. It starts in 1956 long after the legend of Abner Doubleday, a Civil War officer, whose name is entwined with inventing the grand old game we now call baseball. Unlike the ironmen of the past who went the distance and hit for power too, the narrative explores how the game evolved into one that features specialized players like designated hitters and starting pitchers who rarely go more than six innings before the hot arms of the bullpen trot out. It also tells the journey of a young boy into manhood and the trials and tribulations he endures while seeking his lifelong dream and indeed his true calling in life of becoming a major-league pitcher. It touches on the draft and his induction into the military and ultimately his deployment to Southeast Asia and a combat tour that he barely survived. It then follows his path into the world of marijuana trafficking and ultimately a four-year stretch in a Canadian penitentiary. It climaxes with our protagonist getting an invitation at age thirty-six to spring training. He didn't make the team, but it was an achievement nonetheless. It is an entertaining read with great characters mixed in along the way. I hope you will enjoy reading this piece of baseball fiction as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Author : Robert Peyton Wiggins
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786438355
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Federal League of Base Ball Clubs written by Robert Peyton Wiggins and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last independent major league ended its brief run in 1915, after only two seasons at the national pastime’s top level. But no competitor to establishment baseball ever exerted so much influence on its rival, with some of the most recognizable elements of the game today—including the commissioner system, competition for free agents, baseball’s antitrust exemption, and even the beloved Wrigley Field—traceable to the so-called outlaw organization known as the Federal League of Base Ball Clubs. This comprehensive history covers the league from its formation in 1913 through its buyout, dissolution, and legal battles with the National and American leagues. The day-to-day operation of the franchises, the pennant races and outstanding players, the two-year competitive battle for fans and players, and the short- and long-term impact on the game are covered in detail.

Author : Daniel R. Levitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781589799547
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Outlaw League and the Battle That Forged Modern Baseball written by Daniel R. Levitt and published by . This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the 1913-1915 battle between baseball's newly-formed Federal League versus the established National and American leagues, and discusses the short- and long-term impact on the game.

Author : R.G. (Hank) Utley
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786482060
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Independent Carolina Baseball League, 1936-1938 written by R.G. (Hank) Utley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after the independent Carolina League was formed in 1936, officials of the National Association of Professional Baseball--which oversaw what was known as "organized baseball," including the major leagues--began a campaign to destroy the league. The NAPB declared the Carolina League "outlaw" and blacklisted its players because their teams were pirating professionally-contracted ballplayers with the lure of higher wages, small-town hero worship and a career off-season. Backed into a corner, the Carolina League wore its "outlaw" label with a defiant swagger, challenging the all-powerful monopoly of organized professional baseball and its standard player contract. This complete history of the league reveals how it persevered through three tumultuous seasons, fueled by the tight-knit community spirit of North Carolina Piedmont textile towns. Over its three seasons of existence, the Carolina League attracted professional baseball players from all over the country and it gave the players control over their careers, setting a standard that was resisted until free agency was adopted in 1973.

Author : Daniel R. Levitt
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
ISBN 13 : 1566639050
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battle that Forged Modern Baseball written by Daniel R. Levitt and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late 1913 the newly formed Federal League declared itself a major league in competition with the established National and American Leagues. Backed by some of America’s wealthiest merchants and industrialists, the new organization posed a real challenge to baseball’s prevailing structure. For the next two years the well-established leagues fought back furiously in the press, in the courts, and on the field. The story of this fascinating and complex historical battle centers on the machinations of both the owners and the players, as the Federals struggled for profits and status, and players organized baseball’s first real union. Award winning author, Daniel R. Levitt gives us the most authoritative account yet published of the short-lived Federal League, the last professional baseball league to challenge the National League and American League monopoly.

Author : Robert Foust
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781662437113
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outlaw League written by Robert Foust and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-23 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While this book is basically a satirical look at baseball, it touches on other subjects along the way. It starts in 1956 long after the legend of Abner Doubleday, a Civil War officer, whose name is entwined with inventing the grand old game we now call baseball. Unlike the ironmen of the past who went the distance and hit for power too, the narrative explores how the game evolved into one that features specialized players like designated hitters and starting pitchers who rarely go more than six innings before the hot arms of the bullpen trot out. It also tells the journey of a young boy into manhood and the trials and tribulations he endures while seeking his lifelong dream and indeed his true calling in life of becoming a major-league pitcher. It touches on the draft and his induction into the military and ultimately his deployment to Southeast Asia and a combat tour that he barely survived. It then follows his path into the world of marijuana trafficking and ultimately a four-year stretch in a Canadian penitentiary. It climaxes with our protagonist getting an invitation at age thirty-six to spring training. He didn't make the team, but it was an achievement nonetheless. It is an entertaining read with great characters mixed in along the way. I hope you will enjoy reading this piece of baseball fiction as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Author : David Nemec
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803235321
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Major League Baseball Profiles, 1871-1900, Volume 2 written by David Nemec and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The business of baseball and player transactions by David Ball"-- t.p.

Author : Dennis Snelling
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786488034
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greatest Minor League written by Dennis Snelling and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1903, a small league in California defied Organized Baseball by adding teams in Portland and Seattle to become the strongest minor league of the twentieth century. Calling itself the Pacific Coast League, this outlaw association frequently outdrew its major league counterparts and continued to challenge the authority of Organized Baseball until the majors expanded into California in 1958. The Pacific Coast League introduced the world to Joe, Vince and Dom DiMaggio, Paul and Lloyd Waner, Ted Williams, Tony Lazzeri, Lefty O'Doul, Mickey Cochrane, Bobby Doerr, and many other baseball stars, all of whom originally signed with PCL teams. This thorough history of the Pacific Coast League chronicles its foremost personalities, governance, and contentious relationship with the majors, proving that the history of the game involves far more than the happenings in the American and National leagues.

Author : Charlie Bevis
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786431598
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New England League written by Charlie Bevis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book delves deep into the history of the New England League, whose years of operation spanned six decades during the pivotal early years of minor league baseball. Author Charlie Bevis, an expert on New England's baseball past, explores the complex ties to the regional economy, especially to the textile industry, and discusses the pioneering experiments with playoffs, night baseball, and integration.

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271039374
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gateway to the Majors: Williamsport and Minor League Baseball written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many people know Williamsport as the "birthplace of Little League Baseball, " it is also a city with a rich professional baseball tradition. Since the earliest days of the Pennsylvania State Association, professional minor league baseball has flourished in Williamsport, and hundreds of players and managers have passed through historic Bowman Field on their way to the major leagues, including Jim Bunning, Ferguson Jenkins, and Nolan Ryan. Gateway to the Majors is a comprehensive history of professional minor league baseball in Williamsport from the earliest days up to the present.The accompanying appendix of former Williamsport players who played in the Major Leagues is a valuable reference tool for baseball historians. In addition, this book illustrates how the city's relationship with baseball forged a distinct civic identity and national reputation as "Baseball Town, USA."