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Ballplayers in the Great War
Newspaper Accounts of Major Leaguers in World War I Military Service
Häftad, 2013
604 kr
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This volume presents carefully selected, and annotated, articles about major-leaguers serving at home and overseas in the U.S. armed forces during World War I. Some continued to play ball in the military. Others fought the Germans in the trenches, in the air and at sea. Several lost their lives in …
Busting 'Em and Other Big League Stories
Av Ty Cobb, Marty McGee m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
374 kr
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Published in 1914, Busting 'Em was the first of three books credited to Ty Cobb the author. Though in fact it was ghostwritten by John N. Wheeler, who also penned Mathewson's Pitching in a Pinch, the book fascinates with its insights into Cobb as a public figure. The reader is presented Cobb's …
Base Ball in Cincinnati
A History
Av Harry Ellard, Gary Mitchem m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
363 kr
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"From time to time fragmentary accounts of the origin and progress of baseball, as it existed in our community, have appeared in the papers and magazines, but it has remained to the writer to present for the first time a full and complete history of the game of baseball from its first organization …
Richter's History and Records of Base Ball, the American Nation's Chief Sport
Av Francis C. Richter, Gary Mitchem m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
657 kr
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Richter's History and Records of Base Ball, the American Nation's Chief Sport, originally published in 1914, is the most comprehensive and ambitious among the early books about baseball. "This volume," Richter writes, "is designed to supply the growing need of a concise, yet complete, record of our …
Touching Second
Av John J. Evers, Hugh S. Fullerton m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
578 kr
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Johnny Evers was widely considered the brainiest ballplayer of his day and, along with Ty Cobb, one of the most guileful and cantankerous. (He and Joe Tinker, two thirds of the famous double-play combination, battled each other nearly as viciously and as often as they did their opponents.) One of …
Battle of Base-Ball
Av C.H. Claudy, Gary Mitchem m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
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C.H. Claudy might have trouble finding a publisher for his Battle of Base-ball today. His yoking of baseball to warfare--accounts of ways to "cripple the enemy" and descriptions of managers as "battlefield generals"--to teach the young and inexperienced about the game would not likely be applauded …
Base-Ball Ballads
Av Grantland Rice, Gary Mitchem m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
405 kr
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Published in 1910, Base-Ball Ballads was Grantland Rice's first book of poems, and the only one that contained baseball verse exclusively. The book includes some of the best-known poems about baseball ever written, including "Casey's Revenge" (a sometimes-anthologized piece that redeems Ernest …
"Play Ball"
Stories from the Diamond Field and Other Historical Writings about the 19th Century Hall of Famer
Av Mike “King” Kelly, Gary Mitchem m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
374 kr
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If Cap Anson was baseball's first star, King Kelly was the first player whose celebrity extended beyond the diamond. The dashing mustachioed Kelly was a favorite of newspapermen, who lionized him as "King of the Diamond" and "The $10,000 Beauty"; of fans, who celebrated his daring in song ("Slide, …
Nebraska Indians and Fun and Frolic with an Indian Ball Team
Two Accounts of Baseball Barnstorming at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2010
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This is the first book that includes all of Guy W. Green's baseball writings: A Complete History of the Nebraska Indians Base Ball Team (1903), Fun and Frolic with an Indian Ball Team (1904), and "Experiences with an Indian Ball Team" (1908). The works detail the athletic success and humorous …
Great Match and Our Base Ball Club
Two Novels from the Early Days of Base Ball
Av Anonymous, Noah Brooks m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
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The Great Match (1877) and Our Base Ball Club (1884) were the two earliest novels to incorporate baseball as a major plot element, and each is reprinted here for the first time since its original publication. Edited and introduced by baseball scholars Trey Strecker and Geri Strecker, this volume, …
Addie Joss on Baseball
Collected Newspaper Columns and World Series Reports, 1907-1909
Häftad, 2012
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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 …
Ty Cobb
Two Biographies--"Our Ty: Ty Cobb's Life Story" (1924) and "Which Was Greatest: Ty Cobb or Babe Ruth?" (1951)
Av H.G. Salsinger, Gary Mitchem
Häftad, 2012
355 kr
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As sports editor for the Detroit News, H.G. Salsinger reported on Tigers great Ty Cobb for 18 seasons, beginning in 1909 when the outfielder won his only Triple Crown. He would go on to write about Cobb's career for decades after. This volume presents for the first time together Salsinger's two …
