Hardscrabble Diamonds

Postwar Baseball in New England and the Maritimes, 1945-1960

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

Part history, part memoir, part statistical analysis, this book tells the remarkable and largely forgotten story of how the baseball hotbed of Canada's northeastern Maritime provinces evolved into "NCAA North" during the 1940s and 1950s. A summer training ground for players from leading U.S. college programs, the region attracted talented players seeking higher salaries than they could get in the American minor league system. Major league organizations came to scout blue-chip prospects. In this competitive environment, only the best were able to crack the rosters of town teams in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Maine. A Quality of Competition Index for various northeast leagues provides major league equivalencies for selected players.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-05-05
Mått:152 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt:268 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:223
Förlag:McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:9781476690711

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Colin Howell is a professor emeritus from Saint Mary’s University in Halifax where he taught Canadian and sport history and the former editor of the Canadian Historical Review.

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Table of ContentsPreface: Baseball, Memory and HistoryOne. The Postwar Flourishing of Baseball in the MaritimesTwo. Home Diamonds: Local Stars of Postwar Maritime BaseballThree. The Barnstorming Era: American Baseball’s Northward Glance, 1948–50Four. Tipping the Balance: The American Influence and the Marginalization of Local PlayersFive. Bill Brooks, Art Hoch and the Carolinian ConnectionSix. “NCAA North”: CWS Champions, Bonus Babies and All-AmericansSeven. Playing in “Color Bar Limbo”: Black Players in the Maritimes, 1946–60Eight. Borderlands Baseball: New Brunswick and MaineNine. Troublesome Times: 1955–57Ten. Playing Out the String: 1957–59Eleven. Post-Game ReminiscencesTwelve. Great Performers, Great Performances: A Statistical RetrospectiveAppendix 1: Career Batting and Major League Equivalencies: Maritimes and MaineAppendix 2: Single-Season Batting and Major League Equivalencies: Maritimes and MaineAppendix 3: Career PitchingAppendix 4: Players from Major NCAA ProgramsEssay on SourcesChapter NotesBibliographyIndex