
Addie Joss on Baseball
Collected Newspaper Columns and World Series Reports, 1907-1909
Addie Joss(Author)
Gary Mitchem(Editor)
McFarland & Co Inc (Publisher)
Published on 12. July 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
349 pages
978-0-7864-6356-5 (ISBN)
Description
Addie Joss (1880-1911) mowed down batters for the Cleveland Broncos/Naps from 1902 to 1910 before his career was cut short by his tragic death from tubercular meningitis in 1911. With a career ERA of 1.89 and two no-hitters, Joss earned Hall of Fame election despite a career that lasted less than ten years, the only player to do so. In the off-season, Joss also excelled as a sportswriter for the Toledo News-Bee and the Cleveland Press, filling the empty winter months penning stories about the game he knew firsthand. This collection of Joss's newspaper columns and World Series reports is a treasury of the deadball era with intimate first-person observations of the game and its players from the first decade of the American League. Informative annotations, archival photographs, and a brief biography complete the work.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Jefferson, NC
United States
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
9 photos, appendix, notes, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
422 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7864-6356-5 (9780786463565)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Rich Blevins is professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, and a member of the Society for American Baseball Research.
Content
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments viii
Preface
A Brief Biography xvii
1.?"I Have Not Had Better Friends": Players, Great Players and All the Rest
2.?"The Sporting Editor": Baseball Humor
3.?"The Boys Played Grandly": Greatest Games and Plays
4.?Of Fanatics, Kranks and Bugs: The Fans
5.?"Another Remarkable Instance": The Inside Game
6.?Of Spiders and Colonels: The -Nineteenth--Century Game
7.?"Is the American League a Minor League?": World Series Reports
8.?"I Should Suggest": Views from Toledo
Appendix: Contributions by Joss to Other Newspapers and Periodicals
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments viii
Preface
A Brief Biography xvii
1.?"I Have Not Had Better Friends": Players, Great Players and All the Rest
2.?"The Sporting Editor": Baseball Humor
3.?"The Boys Played Grandly": Greatest Games and Plays
4.?Of Fanatics, Kranks and Bugs: The Fans
5.?"Another Remarkable Instance": The Inside Game
6.?Of Spiders and Colonels: The -Nineteenth--Century Game
7.?"Is the American League a Minor League?": World Series Reports
8.?"I Should Suggest": Views from Toledo
Appendix: Contributions by Joss to Other Newspapers and Periodicals
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index