Base Ball is a peer-reviewed book series published annually. Offering the best in original research and analysis, it promotes study of baseball's early history, from its protoball roots to 1920, and its rise to prominence within American popular culture. This volume, number 12, includes thirteen articles on topics ranging from the career of pitcher Harry Coveleski, Philadelphia baseball pioneer Thomas Fitzgerald, and a baseball power couple, James and Harriet Coogan, to early Brooklyn baseball, the game in Canada during World War I, and the amateur teams sponsored by typewriter companies.
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Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Interest Age: From 18 years
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Höhe: 254 mm
Breite: 178 mm
Dicke: 15 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-4766-7473-5 (9781476674735)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Don Jensen, a longtime SABR member, is the director of Russia and Strategic Stability at the United States Institute of Peace and an adjunct professor at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
Table of Contents
Editor's Note
Articles
Harry Coveleski: The Life and Legend of the "Giant Killer"
Art Ahrens
Colonel Fitzgerald of Philadelphia: Baseball Apostle and Closet New Yorker
Thomas W. Gilbert
The Hidden Hall of Famer
David Nemec
Manhattan Politics, Newport Society, and the Polo Grounds: The Turn-of-the-Century Haunts of James and Harriet Coogan
Bill Lamb
John T. Brush and the Brotherhood War, 1888-1890
David Kathman
"He will do just what is best, no doubt": William Hulbert's Calculated Dismantling of the Chicago Base Ball Association
Jack Bales
Brooklyn Baseball: The Missing Years
Brock E. Helander
Flyin' High: A Comparison of the Brooklyn Superbas and the Pittsburgh Pirates, 1900-1909
Bill Scheeren
Baseball, Boating, and Gymnastics: Who Was William Wood?
John Thorn
An American Gothic Tale: Thomas B. Worth, a (Darktown) Life and Black Base Ball Forms
James E. Brunson III
The Minor Leagues and a Major Conflict: Canadian Professional Baseball and the Great
Craig G. Greenham
The Typewriter Boys of Summer (1887-1920)
Peter Weil
Unfamiliar Side of the Coin: Mutual vs. Atlantic, August 1863
Eric Miklich
Book Reviews
About the Contributors
Index
