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Baseball's Canadian-American League

Author: David Pietrusza

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2005-11-29

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 0786425296

A Class C minor league during a turbulent 15 years: its stirring history reveals what minor league baseball—indeed, all of baseball—was experiencing. Begun in the Depression, this league saw the coming of night baseball, World War II, the prosperous postwar era, integration, competition with television, and final demise. And here are the stories of stars in the making: Bob Lemon, Tommy LeSorda, Al Rosen, Lou Burdette, Frank Malzone, Vic Raschi. Those who never made it to the majors are also presented. This book—through groundbreaking research and dozens of personal interviews—captures the essence of minor league ball in this era.

Canadian Minor League Baseball

Author: Jon C. Stott

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2022-01-28

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 0786469927

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During 75 seasons of baseball (1946-2020), 71 teams in 21 minor leagues represented 35 Canadian cities, playing either under the aegis of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (called Minor League Baseball since 1999) or independently. Sixteen teams operated for less than a year, including the eight teams of the Canadian Baseball League of 2003. Another 14 lasted three seasons or less. Seven have played continuously for 20 years or more, among them the Winnipeg Goldeyes of the independent Northern League and American Association, with 27 consecutive seasons since 1994. Chronicling their year-by-year fortunes, this history includes accounts of individual award winners, former Negro League players and future Hall-of-Famers, and traces of the rise and fall of independent league teams and the exodus of Canadian teams to the U.S.

The Northern Game

Author: Bob Elliott

Publisher: Wilmington, Del. : Sport Media Pub.

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781894963404

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Opening at the 2004 Olympic baseball tournament, where the unheralded Canadian team came within an errant throw of the gold medal game, the author recounts Canada's rich baseball history, from 1838 to 2004, when the top rookie in both major leagues hailed form the Great White North.

Canadian Minor League Baseball

Author: Jon C. Stott

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2022-01-25

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1476645000

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Baseball in the American League East Division

Author: Matthew Monteverde

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2009-01-15

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 1435857216

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With a history dating back over one hundred years, teams playing in the American League East division are among the sports most celebrated. This title in Rosens Inside Major League Baseball series takes a closer look at the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Toronto Blue Jays, and Tampa Bay Rays.

Class "C" Baseball

Author: Frank Keetz

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13:

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Bush League, Big City

Author: Michael Sokolow

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2023-04-01

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1438493053

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Bush League, Big City tells the interwoven stories of two low-level minor league baseball teams brought to New York City in the late 1990s. It also illuminates the history of the New York-Penn League, America’s oldest and longest-running minor league, from its inception in 1939 until its abrupt contraction by Major League Baseball in 2020. With an eye for details and firsthand accounts by many of the baseball people involved, Michael Sokolow tells the story of two franchises that went in very different directions, as the Cyclones achieved astronomical success while Staten Island’s ‘Baby Bombers’ sank under the weight of debt and recriminations. Along the way, the book visits small communities in upstate New York, New England, and Canada, introduces the multimillionaires who came to dominate small-time baseball ownership, and tells the tale of two of the most expensive minor-league baseball stadiums ever built. It also sheds light on the complex, behind-the-scenes influence of New York City politics, as the indomitable will of Mayor Rudy Giuliani reshaped the geography of both the city and professional baseball. Bush League, Big City is a compelling examination of both the power and limits of nostalgia in a sport that is increasingly focused on the bottom line.

Blood, Sweat and Cheers

Author: Colin D. Howell

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780802082480

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A look at the contribution of sport to the making of the Canadian nation, focusing on the gradual transition from rural sporting practices to the emphasis on team sports that accompanied the industrial and urban transition.

The Tecumsehs of the International Association

Author: Brian Martin

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-12-24

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 1476618690

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This is the previously untold story of the London Tecumsehs, an 1870s baseball team that rose to the top ranks of pro ball. The Tecumsehs of London, Ontario, were among the founding members of the International Association in 1877, the first league established to challenge the struggling National League, formed a year earlier. The team played against the top competition of the day and defeated nines from Chicago, St. Louis and elsewhere. They became the first champions of the International Association when they defeated Pittsburgh with the arm of Fred Goldsmith, one of the first curveball pitchers. This is also the story of the International Association, the only one of the six leagues challenging the primacy of the National League that has never been accorded major league status. To this day it has been relegated to minor league status to the detriment of some of the pioneer players in the game.

The Integration of Major League Baseball

Author: Rick Swaine

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2009-06-08

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 0786453346

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This book is a record of the men and events, team by team, during Major League Baseball's integration. It focuses especially on the owners, executives and managers who were the heroes, villains or spectators of integration, and it sheds new light on the unheralded champions of integration and on those whose culpability has so far been overlooked. Individual chapters cover each of baseball's integration-era teams, and a final chapter covers expansion teams of the 1960s. Each team's responsible individuals are examined, its acquisition, deployment and treatment of black players documented, and the effect of its integration actions on team performance analyzed. Appendices provide populations of integration-era Major League cities, first black players by team, first black players in various minor leagues, rosters of black players by team, a timeline of black player milestones, and a list of black All-Star selections through 1969.