This is a comprehensive history of League Park, primary home field for Major League Baseball in Cleveland from 1891 to 1946, but with a significant history that includes the National Football League, Negro League baseball, college football and boxing, and an uncanny multitude of amazing events and people. This chronicle allows for these grounds to take their place among the more heralded parks of baseball's past and present. The site has survived to this day as a baseball grounds; a groundbreaking for renovations took place in October 2012.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"The definitive book on the venerated Cleveland baseball venue."-Nineteenth Century Notes; "[T]he authors have created a well-documented and carefully constructed history of a ballpark, a fan base, and a community...a loving search to explain why the ballpark deserves a worthy place in history. Krsolovic and Fritz do excellent detective work, exploiting primary sources and a mix of histories to present a chronological understanding of the importance of early ballparks to any geographic area, and to those who reside there"-SABR Deadball Committee Newsletter; "a well-researched look at one of major-league baseball's quirkier ballparks...generously sprinkled with vintage black-and-white photos of the park"-The Tampa Tribune.
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Interest Age: From 18 years
Produkt-Hinweis
Illustrationen
106 photos, appendices, notes, bibliography, index
Maße
Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 14 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-7864-6826-3 (9780786468263)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Ken Krsolovic, an athletic administrator, baseball coach and sports broadcaster at several colleges and universities, was a collegiate sports information director who wrote and designed 30 award-winning team media guides. He lives in Concord, Ohio. Cleveland prosecutor Bryan Fritz, who previously published a book about the history of John Carroll University football, lives in Fairview Park, Ohio.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1-The Wooden Era
2-Concrete and Steel
3-1920 and the World Series
4-Call It Dunn Field
5-Surviving the Stadium
6-Negro League Park
7-Beyond Baseball
8-Decline and Rebirth
Appendices
A-League Park and Its Teams, by Year
B-Box Scores from Memorable Games
C-Dunn Field Pointers
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
