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Author : Rob Bauer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1948478064
Author : Robert Allan Bauer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Baseball
ISBN : 1948478080
Although on the decline, the threat of gambling on games continued menacing baseball in the 1880s. One issue that certainly was not in decline, however, was the abuse of umpires. Arguments and rows between players, fans, and umpires ranks among the most important issues in the game in this decade. Several major fights broke out every season. Many times, umpires narrowly escaped with their life. At least twice, they killed fans in their own self-defense. How did the situation grow so serious? Equally regrettably, the 1880s was the decade in which baseball drew its color line, banning African Americans from the game. Even after that decision, however, racism showed its face in more subtle ways. Learn how prejudice continued to mar the game throughout the decade, especially when it came to baseball's treatment of mascots.
Author : Robert Allan Bauer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Baseball
ISBN : 1948478102
After the 1889 baseball season, the players of the National League, furious over their treatment by NL owners, decided to secede from the National League and start their own rival league, the Players League. Their league lasted only one season, but its formation remains one of the seminal events in understanding the trajectory of nineteenth-century baseball. Why is this true? By learning why the players of the NL elected to strike out on their own, we gain insight into some of the critical issues facing the game in the late 1880s, particularly the relationship between team owners and their players. However, that's not all. Had a few things gone differently, the Players League might have succeeded. Had it done so, the entire history of major league baseball would have been vastly different. Therefore, understanding the motivations of the players gives us a glimpse of both what was, and what might have been. Put simply, baseball history in the 1890s is incomprehensible without knowledge of the 1890 Players League and how it began.
Author : Rob Bauer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 194847820X
Author : Rob Bauer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1948478056
Author : Bauer,Robert Allan Bauer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Baseball
ISBN : 1948478021
This is a book not just for baseball fans. It's a comprehensive examination of the unusual ways players behaved in 1880s baseball, full of fun stories anyone can enjoy. In the 1880s, drinking by baseball players was out of control. Every team had players who drank too much. Men came to the ballpark drunk, or drank during games. The Philadelphia Athletics brought a keg of beer to one doubleheader with St. Louis. How did the problem get so bad? What about physical training? Players had no scientific training plans, but tried to stay in shape all the same. Some swung Indian war clubs to loosen up, while others went to hot springs. Regarding the question of treating injured players, what worked best? Was it rest, water, electricity, magnetism, patent medicines, or a branding iron? Finally, the 1880's was the golden era of cheating in baseball. Meet the most well-known cheaters, learn their tactics, and the counters to those tactics. It's all here in this book. -- back cover.
Author : Robert Allan Bauer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1614 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Baseball
ISBN : 132190441X
In 1890, members of the Brotherhood of Professional Base Ball Players elected to secede from the National League and form their own organization, which they called the Players League. The players objected to several business practices of the National League, including aspects of the reserve clause in player contracts, the Brush Classification Plan to control their salaries, the buying and selling of players, and fines for various infractions. This dissertation explains how these events combined to produce the revolt by the players at the conclusion of the 1889 season. It also examines various other important aspects of 1880s baseball, including abuse of alcohol, treatments of umpires, physical training techniques, violence on the field, cheating, gambling, mascots, team finances, and racism in baseball. The dissertation illuminates various social and economic aspects of life in Gilded Age America as well. Finally, it helps explain the importance of a little-understood era in the baseball's history that lasted from 1885-1889 and contributed to confirming baseball's status as America's national sport.
Author : John E. Dreifort
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0803266650
A collection of essays which "describe developments in the game's past, assess their impact, and explain how they reflect the period in which they occurred; ... explore baseball's influences outside the field of play as well as the effect of external factors on the game; ... [and] discuss such key issues as demographics, communities, social mobility, race and ethnicity."--Cover.
Author : William J. Ryczek
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476691145
At the end of the 1883 baseball season, things looked rosy--attendance had skyrocketed and the National League and American Association were at peace. A year later, however, the sport was in total disarray. A third major league, the Union Association, had come on the scene and waged a bitter war that rocked the baseball world. By the dawn of the 1885 season, the UA had dissolved in a sea of red ink, the AA had dropped four teams, and the minor leagues were desperately hoping to make it through the season. Amid the chaos of 1884 were some historic moments. Iron-man pitcher Hoss Radbourn won 59 games and led the Providence Grays to victory over the New York Metropolitans in the first World Series. Fleet Walker broke baseball's first color line. There were a record eight no-hitters and a cast of fascinating figures--some famous, some lost to history--like Radbourn, Hustling Horace Phillips, Dan O'Leary, and Edward (The Only) Nolan. This book tells the story of the momentous yet overshadowed 1884 season.
Author : John E. Dreifort
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : UOM:39015050543803
A collection of essays which "describe developments in the game's past, assess their impact, and explain how they reflect the period in which they occurred; ... explore baseball's influences outside the field of play as well as the effect of external factors on the game; ... [and] discuss such key issues as demographics, communities, social mobility, race and ethnicity."--Cover.
Author : Dave Heller
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476651033
Before Shohei Ohtani and Babe Ruth there was Robert Lee "Parisian Bob" Caruthers (1865-1911). A wunderkind pitcher and right fielder known throughout the country, he was the star on the mound for five league championships in 10 years, and one of two players in history--along with Ruth--to lead the Major Leagues in ERA+ (adjusted earned run average) and OPS+ (on-base plus slugging plus). Coming from a wealthy family, Caruthers had something other players didn't--leverage. This resulted in several holdouts, including one which took him to Europe. This first full-length biography rediscovers one of baseball's most interesting characters and first two-way stars.
Author : William E. Akin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786425709
West Virginia sprang into existence as a state in the midst of the Civil War, and "base ball," as it was called then, was close on the heels of statehood. A game in 1866 hosted by the Hunkidori Base Ball Club in Wheeling, is considered the first "match game of Base Ball." Some historians contend the game spread via the movement of soldiers who were from urban areas. The real roots of baseball are not the romantic image of rural boys in sandlots or lazy father-son afternoons. It was born and came of age as an urban sport, a social pursuit of well-heeled young men that in the early days often involved banquets and shows following each game. The author traces the history of minor league and independent league baseball in West Virginia. Baseball below the minor leagues has a rich and comparatively unexplored history, and West Virginia has made substantial contributions to this legacy. Chapters examine the chronological history of baseball and the larger economic and cultural changes that have influenced it. Eras include baseball as a social game (through 1873); the emergence of professional baseball (through 1895); its second boom (through 1905); the deadball era (through 1920); the Martinsburg dynasty (1914 to 1934); as a miners' sport (1920 to 1941); the Middle Atlantic League (1925-1942); the Mountain State League (1937-1942); the postwar years (1945-1955); the nadir (1955-1985); and "A Minor Miracle" (1985-2000), a chapter that heralds a comeback in the popularity of professional baseball.
Author : James E. Brunson III
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786454259
This volume examines early black baseball as it was represented in the artwork and written accounts of the popular press. From contemporary postbellum articles, illustrations, photographs and woodcuts, a unique image of the black athlete emerges, one that was not always positive but was nonetheless central in understanding the evolving black image in American culture. Chapters cover press depictions of championship games, specific teams and athletes, and the fans and culture surrounding black baseball.
Author : Herbert Warren Wind
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781504027557
From gridiron to diamond, lawn to green, a legendary sportswriter captures the wins, losses, and draws of an exciting period in American sports history Throughout his long and distinguished career, Herbert Warren Wind covered many of the most dramatic contests and iconic athletes of the twentieth century. Inspired by Paul Gallico’s classic dispatches from the golden age of the 1920s and ’30s, The Gilded Age of Sport collects Wind’s finest pieces on the people and places of the postwar era. With graceful prose and an authoritative eye for the telling detail, he profiles sports heroes including Yogi Berra, Ben Hogan, Maurice Richard, Bob Cousy, Sam Snead, Ted Williams, Herb Elliott, and Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman. Wind reveals Rocky Marciano’s training regimen, journeys as far afield as Japan and Australia to report on the international sports scene, and delights in the startling discrepancy between the woeful record of Harvard’s football team and the glory of its marching band. An elegant and comprehensive survey of fifteen thrilling years in sports history, The Gilded Age of Sport is a testament to the versatility, wit, and wisdom of a master craftsman.
Author : David Arcidiacono
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786436774
It's been more than a century since Connecticut had big league baseball, but in the 1870s, Middletown, Hartford, and New Haven fielded professional teams that competed at the highest level. By the end of the decade, when the state's final big league team, Mark Twain's beloved Hartford Dark Blues, left the National League, baseball's transition from amateur pastime to major league sport had been accomplished. And Connecticut had played a significant role in its development. The history of the Nutmeg State's three major league teams is described here in full, and the author thoughtfully examines their influence within the regional baseball scene.