Major League Baseball Profiles, 1871-1900, Volume 2
Title | Major League Baseball Profiles, 1871-1900, Volume 2 PDF eBook |
Author | David Nemec |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 573 |
Release | 2011-09-01 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0803235321 |
"The business of baseball and player transactions by David Ball"-- t.p.
Major League Baseball Profiles, 1871-1900
Title | Major League Baseball Profiles, 1871-1900 PDF eBook |
Author | David Nemec |
Publisher | Bison Books |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780803235335 |
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. Volume 2 features Hall of Famers who played in the era, as well as twenty other figures who aren't yet enshrined but arguably should be because of their considerable impact on the game. It also profiles early day baseball's crooks, madcaps, homicide victims, suicides, and missing persons, in addition to the managers, team owners, and umpires who helped give the game its structure and shape. More than a collection of mere facts and statistics, Major League Baseball Profiles provides a unique history of the evolution of major league baseball, from the date of the first major league game in 1871 through the 1900 season, which marked not only the close of a century but also the unofficial end of what many believe to be the formative period of the game.
Major League Baseball Profiles, 1871-1900, Volume 1
Title | Major League Baseball Profiles, 1871-1900, Volume 1 PDF eBook |
Author | David Nemec |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 683 |
Release | 2011-09-01 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0803230249 |
"The business of baseball and player transactions by David Ball"-- t.p.
Major League Baseball Profiles
Title | Major League Baseball Profiles PDF eBook |
Author | David Nemec |
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Major League Baseball Profiles, 1871-1900: The ballplayers who built the game
Title | Major League Baseball Profiles, 1871-1900: The ballplayers who built the game PDF eBook |
Author | David Nemec |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 660 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Baseball |
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Major League Baseball Profiles, 1871-1900: The Hall of Famers and memorable personalities who shaped the game
Title | Major League Baseball Profiles, 1871-1900: The Hall of Famers and memorable personalities who shaped the game PDF eBook |
Author | David Nemec |
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Release | 2011 |
Genre | Baseball |
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The Rank and File of 19th Century Major League Baseball
Title | The Rank and File of 19th Century Major League Baseball PDF eBook |
Author | David Nemec |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 2012-04-19 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0786490446 |
With this volume, David Nemec completes his remarkable trilogy of 19th-century baseball biographies, covering every major league player, manager, umpire, owner and league official. It provides in-depth information on many figures unknown to most historians. Each detailed entry includes vital statistics, peer-driven analysis of baseball-related skills, and an overview of the individual's role in the game. Also chronicled are players' first and last major league games, most important achievements, movements from team to team, and much more. By bringing attention to these overlooked baseball personalities, this reference work immeasurably enriches our knowledge of 19th century major league baseball.