20th Century Baseball Chronicle
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9781561735549
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Baseball from 1900 -1991.
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9781561735549
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Baseball from 1900 -1991.
Author: Carolyn Keene
Publisher: Publications International
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 674
ISBN-13: 9780785370123
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains a year-by-year history of major league baseball.
Author: John Mehno
Publisher: Carlton Publishing Group
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 584
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From its Humble Beginnings over a century ago, baseball has become America's pastime and obsession. It is a sport that once moved social commentator Jacques Barzun to say, "Whoever wants to know more about the heart and mind of America, had better learn baseball." For such is the passion surrounding the game that it is no longer the melting snow that heralds the coming of spring, but the crack of the bat that signals the start of spring training in March.
Author: Stephens Hanks
Publisher: Crescent
Published: 1991-06-24
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9780517052549
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traces baseball from 1900 to 1990 with a year-by-year season overview, which recounts each year's biggest stories: the pennant races, the World Series, the MVP's, and the rising stars--as well as each season's hottest controversies.
Author: Jules Tygiel
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780195106206
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offers a history of African American exclusion from baseball, and assesses the changing racial attitudes that led up to Jackie Robinson's acceptance by the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Author: Daniel R. Levitt
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Published: 2012-03-09
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 1566639050
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In late 1913 the newly formed Federal League declared itself a major league in competition with the established National and American Leagues. Backed by some of America’s wealthiest merchants and industrialists, the new organization posed a real challenge to baseball’s prevailing structure. For the next two years the well-established leagues fought back furiously in the press, in the courts, and on the field. The story of this fascinating and complex historical battle centers on the machinations of both the owners and the players, as the Federals struggled for profits and status, and players organized baseball’s first real union. Award winning author, Daniel R. Levitt gives us the most authoritative account yet published of the short-lived Federal League, the last professional baseball league to challenge the National League and American League monopoly.
Author: Geoffrey C. Ward
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 0679765417
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With more than 500 photographs -- Introduction by Roger Angell -- Essays by Thomas Boswell, Robert W. Creamer, Gerald Early, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Bill James, David Lamb, Daniel Okrent, John Thorn, George E Will -- And featuring an interview with Buck O'Neil
Author: Tom Clavin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-03-16
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781416596820
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tom Clavin and Danny Peary chronicle the life and career of baseball’s “natural home run king” in the first definitive biography of Roger Maris—including a brand-new chapter to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of his record breaking season. Roger Maris may be the greatest ballplayer no one really knows. In 1961, the soft-spoken man from the frozen plains of North Dakota enjoyed one of the most amazing seasons in baseball history, when he outslugged his teammate Mickey Mantle to become the game’s natural home-run king. It was Mantle himself who said, "Roger was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was." Yet Maris was vilified by fans and the press and has never received his due from biographers—until now. Tom Clavin and Danny Peary trace the dramatic arc of Maris’s life, from his boyhood in Fargo through his early pro career in the Cleveland Indians farm program, to his World Series championship years in New York and beyond. At the center is the exciting story of the 1961 season and the ordeal Maris endured as an outsider in Yankee pinstripes, unloved by fans who compared him unfavorably to their heroes Ruth and Mantle, relentlessly attacked by an aggressive press corps who found him cold and inaccessible, and treated miserably by the organization. After the tremendous challenge of breaking Ruth’s record was behind him, Maris ultimately regained his love of baseball as a member of the world champion St. Louis Cardinals. And over time, he gained redemption in the eyes of the Yankee faithful. With research drawn from more than 130 interviews with Maris’s teammates, opponents, family, and friends, as well as 16 pages of photos, some of which have never before been seen, this timely and poignant biography sheds light on an iconic figure from baseball’s golden era—and establishes the importance of his role in the game’s history.