Warren Ballpark

Author : Mike Anderson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738596434
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warren Ballpark written by Mike Anderson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If there is a place where the ghosts of baseball players come at night to relive their glory days, it is Warren Ballpark in the old copper-mining town of Bisbee, Arizona. Warren Ballpark has been in use as a sports facility since 1909--longer than any other ballpark in the United States. Some of the most colorful and notable figures in baseball history have stepped onto its field as barnstorming big leaguers or as minor-league players hoping to make their way up to the "Big Show." Several players implicated in the infamous 1919 "Black Sox" scandal played in an "outlaw" league at Warren Ballpark during the 1920s. In 1917, it was the holding facility for 1,500 striking copper miners rounded up during the Bisbee Deportation. It is also the site of one of the longest-running and most bitterly contested high school football rivalries in America, between the Bisbee Pumas and the Douglas Bulldogs.

Author : Mike Anderson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439642605
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warren Ballpark written by Mike Anderson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-25 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If there is a place where the ghosts of baseball players come at night to relive their glory days, it is Warren Ballpark in the old copper-mining town of Bisbee, Arizona. Warren Ballpark has been in use as a sports facility since 1909longer than any other ballpark in the United States. Some of the most colorful and notable figures in baseball history have stepped onto its field as barnstorming big leaguers or as minor-league players hoping to make their way up to the Big Show. Several players implicated in the infamous 1919 Black Sox scandal played in an outlaw league at Warren Ballpark during the 1920s. In 1917, it was the holding facility for 1,500 striking copper miners rounded up during the Bisbee Deportation. It is also the site of one of the longest-running and most bitterly contested high school football rivalries in America, between the Bisbee Pumas and the Douglas Bulldogs.

Author : Allen Barra
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039307935X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rickwood Field: A Century in America's Oldest Ballpark written by Allen Barra and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary social history of Rickwood Field becomes the story of baseball itself, gloriously evoked for the centennial of America’s oldest ballpark. While America has changed dramatically over the last hundred years, Rickwood Field, the pride of Birmingham, Alabama, has remained fixed in time. Best-selling baseball writer Allen Barra journeyed to his native Alabama to capture the glories of a century of baseball lore. In chronicling the history of Rickwood Field, where the manually operated scoreboard still uses numbers painted on metal sheets, Barra also tells of segregated baseball, the vaunted Negro Leagues, and captures the ghosts of the players themselves, including Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Satchel Paige, and Willie Mays. Evoking such classics as Shoeless Joe and The Boys of Summer, Barra recalls not only a simpler, bygone era but also a city rife with racial tension and abject poverty, where a tattered ballpark was, and still is, a rare beacon of hope. Indeed, Barra skillfully convinces us that the histories of Rickwood Field, baseball, and the American south are inextricably bound together.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1400 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger Naylor
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826364586
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Awesome Arizona written by Roger Naylor and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which state has the most national monuments? Where in America can you find one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World? Where is the largest contiguous forest of ponderosa pine? In Awesome Arizona, Roger Naylor, “the Dean of Arizona Travel Writers,” has amassed 200 amazing facts and fascinating commentary about his beloved state. This is the fast-paced, funny encyclopedia that lovers of Arizona have been craving. Awesome Arizona captures the essence of the sixth-largest state, from its rowdy past to its epic landscape bulging with mountains, slashed by canyons, and blown apart by volcanoes. Learn about trees that once shaded dinosaurs, the West’s most legendary gunfight, the world’s largest antique, the best-preserved meteor crater on earth, where the post office still delivers mail by mule, the longest poker game in history, how Arizona saved the unicorn, and so much more.

Author : Margaret Dillard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warren Ball Park and Its First Game written by Margaret Dillard and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Annie Graeme Larkin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439642281
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bisbee written by Annie Graeme Larkin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-29 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visually, the Bisbee of today remains a community frozen in time, with Main Street retaining its character from 1910. The discovery of copper deposits in the Mule Mountains brought forth a wealth that enabled a substantial community. Profitable mining ventures and a need for labor drew thousands of miners from around the world to work in Bisbee. These individuals added a distinct flavor to the area. Like countless other Western mining camps, Bisbee evolved from a rough frontier community surviving disastrous fires and floods into a town with a substantial population and solid foundation. Bisbees seemingly inexhaustible mineral wealth resulted in the community becoming a center of economic and political power in an emerging territory on its way to statehood. It was Arizonas greatest copper camp.

Author : Chuck Pederson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1450076475
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book SOB: Southwestern Outlaw Baseball written by Chuck Pederson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You've certainly heard of the 1919 Black Sox Scandal, "Shoeless Joe" and the other "outlaws," but do their stories end in a Windy City courtroom? When banished from baseball, an "outlaw" had two options: hang up the cleats, or find an outlaw league roster spot. SOUTHWESTERN OUTLAW BASEBALL is a meandering enumeration of baseball's westward expansion with some skillfully-placed geographical and historical tidbits, concluding with the collapse of the outlaw Copper League in 1927. From "Bean Town" to Bisbee and points in between, SOUTHWESTERN OUTLAW BASEBALL paints a poetic picture of some disgraced athletes who weren't quite ready to put their flannels in mothballs."

Author : Chris Epting
Publisher : Santa Monica Press
ISBN 13 : 1595809112
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roadside Baseball written by Chris Epting and published by Santa Monica Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing such quintessentially American pastimes as baseball and road trips in one fascinating work, this updated and expanded guide chronicles more than 500 important events in baseball history with detailed descriptions of the event and information on each location. Packed with historical data, trivia, photographs, and baseball lore, entries include the birthplaces of baseball legends, ballparks, museums and halls of fame, final resting places, and many locations that are no longer standing. From out-of-the-way spots to the most popular stadiums in the U.S. and Canada, no site is too small or insignificant to be included in this comprehensive directory. Entries include the Buckminster Hotel in Boston, where the Black Sox planned their fix of the 1919 World Series; the original little league field and museum in Williamsport, Pennsylvania; the birthplace of Jackie Robinson; the place where Mickey Mantle was discovered by a scout from the New York Yankees; and the site of the original Wrigley Field, erected in Los Angeles in 1925.

Author : John Darrin Tenney
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078649610X
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball in Territorial Arizona written by John Darrin Tenney and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arizona Territory is known for saloons, gunfights, outlaws and strong women. But the history of baseball in Arizona is long forgotten. The national pastime came first to the territory's many military posts and soon gained a foothold in early towns such as Tucson, Prescott, Tombstone and Phoenix. Gaining popularity in the 1880s, the game spread through the territory with the help of railroads. Soon company nines were competing against town clubs. In the early 1900s, the major leagues made several tours through Arizona. This book takes a first-ever look into Arizona's rich baseball history, with never before seen photographs of the earliest baseball clubs and games.