The History Of National League Baseball Since 1876 Updated

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 : 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 : 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 : Jack Bales
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476674671
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( 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.

Author : Maury Klein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632860244
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stealing Games written by Maury Klein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1911 New York Giants stole an astonishing 347 bases, a record that still stands more than a century later. That alone makes them special in baseball history, but as Maury Klein relates in Stealing Games they also embodied a rapidly changing America on the cusp of a faster, more frenetic pace of life dominated by machines, technology, and urban culture. Baseball, too, was evolving from the dead-ball to the live-ball era--the cork-centered ball was introduced in 1910 and structurally changed not only the outcome of individual games but the way the game itself was played, requiring upgraded equipment, new rules, and new ways of adjudicating. Changing performance also changed the relationship between management and players. The Giants had two stars--the brilliant manager John McGraw and aging pitcher Christy Mathewson--and memorable characters such as Rube Marquard and Fred Snodgrass; yet their speed and tenacity led to three pennants in a row starting in 1911. Stealing Games gives a great team its due and underscores once more the rich connection between sports and culture.

Author : Frank P. Jozsa, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786457236
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Major League Baseball Expansions and Relocations written by Frank P. Jozsa, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study considers the importance of location for new and relocated major league franchises in the more than 130 years since the National League was founded. Included are an analysis of market differences and similarities, team performances and demographics and area economic comparisons. Market data are used to predict future expansions and relocations of major league teams.

Author : Donald Honig
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The National League, an Illustrated History written by Donald Honig and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1983 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profusely illustrated history of baseball's oldest organization -- the National League, founded in 1876, with its great teams, including St. Louis's "Gas House Gang" and the Brooklyn Dodgers, and its great players: Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays, Henry Aaron, Roberto Clemente, Sandy Koufax, Pete Rose, Johnny Bench and Tom Seaver.

Author : Charles C. Alexander
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803259256
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John McGraw written by Charles C. Alexander and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There has been only one manager-and his name is McGraw."-Connie Mack. "Diligently researched and artfully written, John McGraw illuminates not only the man but the transformation of America and its national pastime between 1890 and 1930."-San Francisco Chronicle. "Absorbing. . . . Alexander is a lively writer and a crisp storyteller."-New York Times. "From a historian of Alexander's stature one can expect more than just another sports book, and the result is not disappointing. With great erudition and meticulous research, he brings to life not only a game and its competitors but a whole period of U.S. history."-America. "Sports biography at its best: an entertaining, scholarly treatment of the life and times of a legendary figure. . . . Alexander portrays famed Giant manager John McGraw without sentimental bias."-Library Journal. "He ate gunpowder every morning, " complained one umpire, "and washed it down with warm blood." That described John McGraw, who in the 1890s was the rowdiest member of the ferocious Baltimore Orioles, the club that pioneered the hit-and-run, the cutoff, the squeeze play, and the "Baltimore chop." In 1902 he began his thirty-season reign as manager of the Giants, winning ten pennants-a record matched only by Casey Stengel. His career in baseball spanned forty years and two eras-from the game's raucous early days to its emergence as big business. Charles C. Alexander, a professor of history at Ohio University, Athens, and the author of Ty Cobb, calls John McGraw "perhaps the single most significant figure in baseball's history before Babe Ruth transformed the game with his mammoth home runs and unparalleled showmanship."

Author : Charles C. Alexander
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1466856181
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rogers Hornsby written by Charles C. Alexander and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A relentless competitor, Rogers Hornsby--arguably the finest right-handed hitter in baseball's history--was supremely successful on the baseball field but, in many ways, a failure off it. In this biography, Charles Alexander turns his skilled eye to this complex individual, weaving the stories of his personal and professional life with a lively history of the sport.

Author : Burton A. Boxerman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786480272
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ebbets to Veeck to Busch written by Burton A. Boxerman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-06-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of baseball there have been countless books, but, surprisingly, relatively few about the owners, the men and women who invested their time--and, frequently, their fortunes--in baseball teams. What has been written tends to concentrate on the financial aspects of ownership or individual owners and their private lives, and pays less attention to the enduring contributions certain owners have made. Eight owners and their lasting influences on the game are the focus of this book. Charles Ebbets, Barney Dreyfuss, Helene Britton, Clark Griffith, Walter O'Malley, Bill Veeck, Charles Finley and August Busch were chosen for inclusion not only because of their larger contributions but also because they were hands-on owners who ran their teams decisively. For instance, Helene Britton proved that a knowledgable woman could successfully run a ball club, even if she couldn't vote; Bill Veeck hired the first black player in the American League, introduced exploding scoreboards and was the first owner to put his players' names on the backs of their uniforms; Walter O'Malley relocated his Dodgers to the West Coast and convinced Giants owner Horace Stoneham to bring his team out too.