Turbulent Seasons

Baseball in 1890-1891

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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This history recaptures a colorful era in early baseball when club owners quarreled, players berated umpires, sportswriters criticized and ridiculed both owners and players, and the game made halting progress toward the sport and business it became. The two seasons saw the formation in 1890 of the Players League by the Brotherhood of Professional Ball Players, America's first sports union; the failure of the players' efforts to stand up to the owners; the collapse of a new National Agreement between the National League and the American Association; and the eventual amalgamation of four Association franchises into the National League, creating a decade of relative peace. This title is now available as a paperback and ebook exclusively from McFarland.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-02-24
Mått152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt354 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9781476662466

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Table of ContentsPreface ix1. 1889: The National Game 12. 1890: “Seven Stories with a Mansard Roof” 273. 1890: “Trying for Years to Get into a First-class League” 534. 1890: “Rotting as Fast as Nature Will Let Them” 775. 1890–91: “Lunkheads of the First Water” 1056. 1891: “Mad Clean Through” 1197. 1891: “I Should Expect to Be Hanged” 1538. 1891–92: “Men of Money Have About Come to Their Senses” 187Appendix: Some Lives Afterward 199Bibliography 211Index 217

“Charles Alexander has an uncanny knack of putting his subject into its historical context. He shines a bright and often amusing light on a cast of characters comprising some of baseball’s most colorful players and owners, including a hard-living, fun-loving group of players who literally attempted to hijack baseball and almost pulled it off over the course of one very ‘turbulent season.’”—Rick Huhn, author of Eddie Collins and The Sizzler: George Sisler, Baseball’s Forgotten Great