The Battle for Baseball Supremacy in Boston
Author | : Frank J. Williams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Baseball |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Frank J. Williams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Baseball |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lyle Spatz |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 2010-04-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0803229941 |
At the dawn of the roaring twenties, baseball was struggling to overcome two of its darkest moments: the death of a player during a Major League game and the revelations of the 1919 Black Sox scandal. At this critical juncture for baseball, two teams emerged to fight for the future of the game. They were also battling for the hearts and minds of New Yorkers as the city rose in dramatic fashion to the pinnacle of the baseball world. "1921" captures this crucial moment in the history of baseball, telling the story of a season that pitted the New York Yankees against their Polo Grounds landlords and hated rivals, John McGraw's Giants, in the first all-New York Series and resulted in the first American League pennant for the now-storied Yankees' franchise. Lyle Spatz and Steve Steinberg recreate the drama that featured the charismatic Babe Ruth in his assault on baseball records in the face of McGraw's disdain for the American League and the Ruth-led slugging style. Their work evokes the early 1920s with the words of renowned sportswriters such as Damon Runyon, Grantland Rice, and Heywood Broun. With more than fifty photographs, the book offers a remarkably vivid picture of the colorful characters, the crosstown rivalry, and the incomparable performances that made this season a classic.
Author | : Randy Roberts |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2020-03-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1541672674 |
A "marvelous" (Sports Illustrated) portrait of the three men whose lives were forever changed by WWI-era Boston and the Spanish flu: baseball star Babe Ruth, symphony conductor Karl Muck, and Harvard law student Charles Whittlesey. In the fall of 1918, a fever gripped Boston. The streets emptied as paranoia about the deadly Spanish flu spread. Newspapermen and vigilante investigators aggressively sought to discredit anyone who looked or sounded German. And as the war raged on, the enemy seemed to be lurking everywhere: prowling in submarines off the coast of Cape Cod, arriving on passenger ships in the harbor, or disguised as the radicals lecturing workers about the injustice of a sixty-hour workweek. War Fever explores this delirious moment in American history through the stories of three men: Karl Muck, the German conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, accused of being an enemy spy; Charles Whittlesey, a Harvard law graduate who became an unlikely hero in Europe; and the most famous baseball player of all time, Babe Ruth, poised to revolutionize the game he loved. Together, they offer a gripping narrative of America at war and American culture in upheaval.
Author | : Charlie Bevis |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2017-09-22 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1476629641 |
For 52 years, Boston was a two-team Major League city, home to both the Red Sox and the Braves. This book focuses on the two teams' period of coexistence and competition for fans. The author analyzes the Boston fan base through trends in transportation, communication, geography, population and employment. Tracing the pendulum of fan preference between the two teams over five distinct time periods, a deeper understanding emerges of why the Red Sox remained in Boston and the Braves moved to Milwaukee.
Author | : The New York Times |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2004-09-07 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780312336165 |
This photo-filled history of the greatest rivalry of baseball--Yankees vs. Red Sox--is penned by the leading sportswriters for the two teams' hometown papers. 80 photos, 20 in color.
Author | : Steve Steinberg |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1496200950 |
2018 SABR Baseball Research Award Winner Baseball in the 1920s is most known for Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees, but there was another great Yankee player in that era whose compelling story remains untold. Urban Shocker was a fiercely competitive and colorful pitcher, a spitballer who had many famous battles with Babe Ruth before returning to the Yankees. Shocker was traded away to the St. Louis Browns in 1918 by Yankees manager Miller Huggins, a trade Huggins always regretted. In 1925, after four straight seasons with at least twenty wins with the hapless Browns, Shocker became the only player Huggins brought back to the Yankees. He finally reached the World Series, with the 1926 Yankees. In the Yankees' storied 1927 season, widely viewed to be the best in MLB history, Shocker pitched with guts and guile, finishing with a record of 18‑6 even while his fastball and physical skills were deserting him. Hardly anyone knew that Shocker was suffering from an incurable heart disease that left him able to sleep only while sitting up and which would take his life in less than a year. With his physical skills diminishing, he continued to win games through craftiness and well-placed pitches. Delving into Shocker's baseball career, his love of the game, and his battle with heart disease, Steve Steinberg shows the dominant and courageous force that he was.
Author | : William J. Craig |
Publisher | : History Press Library Editions |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2012-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781540232748 |
Author | : Bill Nowlin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2018-04-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781943816798 |
Until Red Sox fans could relax (a bit) after expunging The Curse, it seemed taboo to study their last championship year, 1918, an overlooked season in the shadow of World War I with players leaving for military service or war-related work.Thirty researchers from the Society for American Baseball Research offer biographies of each man on this intriguing team, ranging from Babe Ruth and Harry Hooper to Red Bluhm, who batted only once.
Author | : Timothy J. Zarley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Baseball |
ISBN | : |
Step right up, sports enthusiasts and history buffs! Immerse yourself in a riveting historical narrative with "1901: The War of the Baseball Magnates" by Timothy J. Zarley. This meticulously look at baseball’s history explores the power struggles and rivalries that reshaped Major League Baseball. - Amazon
Author | : Maggi M. Morehouse |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0415895960 |
As war raged on the battlefields of the Civil War, men and women all over the nation continued their daily routines. They celebrated holidays, ran households, wrote letters, read newspapers, joined unions, attended plays, and graduated from high school and college. Civil War America reveals how Americans, both Northern and Southern, lived during the Civil War—the ways they worked, expressed themselves artistically, organized their family lives, treated illness, and worshipped. Written by specialists, the chapters in this book cover the war’s impact on the economy, the role of the federal government, labor, welfare and reform efforts, the Indian nations, universities, healthcare and medicine, news coverage, photography, and a host of other topics that flesh out the lives of ordinary Americans who just happened to be living through the biggest conflict in American history. Along with the original material presented in the book chapters, the website accompanying the book is a treasure trove of primary sources, both textual and visual, keyed for each chapter topic. Civil War America and its companion website uncover seismic shifts in the cultural and social landscape of the United States, providing the perfect addition to any course on the Civil War.