Addie Joss on Baseball

Collected Newspaper Columns and World Series Reports, 1907-1909

AvAddie Joss,Gary Mitchem

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

Addie Joss (1880-1911) mowed down batters for the Cleveland Broncos/Naps from 1902 to 1910 before his career was cut short by his tragic death from tubercular meningitis in 1911. With a career ERA of 1.89 and two no-hitters, Joss earned Hall of Fame election despite a career that lasted less than ten years, the only player to do so. In the off-season, Joss also excelled as a sportswriter for the Toledo News-Bee and the Cleveland Press, filling the empty winter months penning stories about the game he knew firsthand. This collection of Joss's newspaper columns and World Series reports is a treasury of the deadball era with intimate first-person observations of the game and its players from the first decade of the American League. Informative annotations, archival photographs, and a brief biography complete the work.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-07-12
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:422 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:McFarland Historical Baseball Library
Antal sidor:349
Förlag:McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:9780786463565

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Rich Blevins is professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, and a member of the Society for American Baseball Research.

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“One of the best but least-heralded developments in the recent history of baseball literature was the inauguration of the McFarland Historical Baseball Library in 2003”—I>Spitball; “invaluable McFarland Historical Baseball Library series”—Edward Achorn, The Providence Journal.

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsAcknowledgments viiiPrefaceA Brief Biographyxvii1. “I Have Not Had Better Friends”: Players, Great Players and All the Rest2. “The Sporting Editor”: Baseball Humor3. “The Boys Played Grandly”: Greatest Games and Plays4. Of Fanatics, Kranks and Bugs: The Fans 5. “Another Remarkable Instance”: The Inside Game6. Of Spiders and Colonels: The Nineteenth-Century Game7. “Is the American League a Minor League?”: World Series Reports 8. “I Should Suggest”: Views from Toledo Appendix: Contributions by Joss to Other Newspapers and PeriodicalsChapter Notes Bibliography Index