Major League Baseball Profiles, 1871-1900, Volume 1: The Ballplayers Who Built the Game In its infancy, major league baseball was anyone’s game, open to a dizzying array of rogues and scamps, athletic giants and captains of industry, hustlers, managers, and umpires who transformed
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| Title | : | Major League Baseball Profiles, 1871-1900, Volume 1: The Ballplayers Who Built the Game |
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (769 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0803230249 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 688 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2011-09-01 |
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In its infancy, major league baseball was anyone’s game, open to a dizzying array of rogues and scamps, athletic giants and captains of industry, hustlers, managers, and umpires who transformed club-based teams into the first professional federations with formalized rules—and commercial considerations. This two-volume work—with its profiles of every key contributor to the major league game from May 4, 1871, through December 31, 1900—is truly “inside baseball.” Volume 1 profiles all the key position players and pitchers of the nineteenth century, giving detailed information about each player’s role in the game, his debut and finale, high points and low, most important achievements, relationship to ground-breaking diamond occurrences, in addition to fascinating personal information. More than a collection of mere facts and statistics, Major League Baseball Profiles provides a unique history of the ev
Editorial : From Booklist Nemec, a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and the author of several quiz books about the sport, backs all of his work with amazing research and obvious passion for the game. This is a richly detailed two-volume set (available separately) that presents biographical sketches of hundreds of people who contributed to the early decades of major-league baseball. The first volume, The Ballplayers Who Built the Game, is a treasure trove of the more obscure figures from early in the sport. Chapters are divided according to the positions of the players. Basic statistical records and colorful nicknames are included for each player. Information regarding the lives of players, both on and off the diamond, helps to make the sketches particularly appealing. For example, pitcher Harry McCormick briefly earned stardom in the National League by being an early adapter of the curveball and displaying terrific control. Following his playing days, McCormick was employed as
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