Baseball, the First Season, 1876
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Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1976 |
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Author | : Neil W. Macdonald |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2004-05-18 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780786417551 |
In the early 1870s, baseball was chaos, mired in mismanagement and corruption. William Hulbert, the owner of Chicago's National Association team, believed that a league run efficiently with honest competition would survive and flourish. Hulbert, relying on his pragmatic philosophy of "molasses now, vinegar later" and working with his prize recruit Albert Spalding, founded the National League in 1876. That inaugural season of the National League is chronicled in this heavily documented work. The league fell far short of Hulbert's dreams in its first season, but he stuck to his belief that integrity would win out in the end. He not only prohibited Sunday baseball and the sale and consumption of alcohol within the league's ballparks, but ousted two teams--New York and Philadelphia--from the league because they failed to meet their obligation to finish out the season. Despite the setbacks, scandals, and considerable opposition, all of which are thoroughly covered here, the National League survived its first year.
Author | : Albert Goodwill Spalding |
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Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Baseball |
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This book is Albert Spaldings work of "historic facts concerning the beginning, evolution, development and popularity of base ball, with personal reminiscences of its vicissitudes, its victories and its votaries." It is one of the defining books in the early formative years of modern baseball.
Author | : Scott Simkus |
Publisher | : Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2014-03-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1613748167 |
Outsider Baseball is the story of a forgotten world, where independent professional ball clubs zig-zagged across America, plying their trade in big cities and small villages alike. Included among the former and future major leaguers were mercenaries, scalawags, and outcasts. This is where Babe Ruth, Rube Waddell, and John McGraw crossed bats with the Cuban Stars, Tokyo Giants, Brooklyn Bushwicks, dozens of famous Negro league teams, and novelty acts such as the House of David and Bloomer Girls. Legends emerged in this alternate baseball universe and author Scott Simkus sets out to share their stories and use a critical lens to separate fact from fiction. Written in a gritty prose style, Outsider Baseball combines meticulous research with modern analytics, opening the door to an unforgettable funhouse of baseball history. Scott Simkus is the founder and editor of the Outsider Baseball Bulletin. He is the winner of a research award from the Society of American Baseball Research for his work on the Negro League Database.
Author | : Len Feder |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Pub |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2013-03-06 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781482613711 |
This is a game by game report of a 70-game season played out, using baseball players from the first 4 years of the National League, from 1876 to 1879.
Author | : Anonymous |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 2024-06-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385490200 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Author | : Brian Aldridge |
Publisher | : Classic Sports Journal |
Total Pages | : 7 |
Release | : 2021-12-01 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
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In the 1820s, what we call baseball today was first known as Rounders, Town Ball, Round Ball, and Base Ball before the two words were combined as one. Researchers and historians have noted that, in some form, the sport was even played in the late 1700s. Rounders: was first played by English schoolchildren and included a batter (the striker), a pitcher, 4 bases, and an infield in the shape of diamond. When known as Town Ball or Round Ball, the rules varied, as did the number of players each team could field. Teams playing Town Ball, for instance, could put 20-50 in the field. This game (at least a form of it) began in the northeast US, where non-athletes such as dairy workers, clerks, lawyers, and plumbers played their games on wheat fields and in town squares. As the sport grew in popularity, city-based teams formed and up to 24 competed with one another. By the mid-1850s, the best known and most successful team was the Eckfords (Brooklyn, NY). From 1839-1869, baseball abided by a code of ethics, meaning that the game was to be played by amateurs, not paid athletes. Then came along the Cincinnati Reds and the Boston Red Sox (the color red signified the color of the socks they wore) - two teams whose players were openly paid for their efforts. Check out the rules, the terms (what's revolving, hippodroming, or chicagoed mean?), and the many reasons why MLB's oldest league, the National League, was formed.
Author | : S. Derby Gisclair |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738516141 |
In July of 1859, seventy-five young New Orleanians came together to form the seven teams that comprised the Louisiana Base Ball Club. They played their games in the fields of the de la Chaise estate on the outskirts of New Orleans near present-day Louisiana Avenue. As America's population grew through immigration, so did the popularity of what the largest newspaper in New Orleans, the Daily Picayune, called in November of 1860 "the National Game." Baseball quickly replaced cricket as the city's most popular participant sport. In 1887, local businessmen and promoters secured a minor league franchise for the city of New Orleans in the newly formed Southern League, beginning the city's 73-year love affair with the New Orleans Pelicans. From Shoeless Joe Jackson, to Hall of Famers Dazzy Vance, Joe Sewell, Bob Lemon, and Earl Weaver, to today's stars such as Jeff Cirillo and Lance Berkman, the road to the majors brought many notable players through New Orleans. From these early beginnings to the present-day New Orleans Zephyrs of the AAA Pacific Coast League, local fans have continued the tradition of baseball in New Orleans.
Author | : Peter Morris |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2013-07-15 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0786474300 |
This book completes the series of histories of the clubs and players responsible for making baseball the national pastime that began with Base Ball Pioneers, 1850-1870 (McFarland 2011). Forty clubs and hundreds of pioneer players from the first hotbeds of New York City, Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts are profiled by leading experts on baseball's early years. The subjects include legendary clubs such as the Knickerbockers of New York, the Eckfords and Atlantics of Brooklyn, the Athletics of Philadelphia, and Harvard's first baseball clubs, and fabled players like Jim Creighton, Dickey Pearce, and Daniel Adams, but space is also given to less well remembered clubs such as the Champion Club of Jersey City and the Cummaquids of Barnstable, Massachusetts. What united all of these founders of the game was that their love of baseball during its earliest years helped to make it the national pastime.
Author | : Don Kerr |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Baseball teams |
ISBN | : 9780786406807 |
This is a team-by-team reference to every baseball opening day game played since the National League started in 1876 (and the American League followed in 1901). Each team's entry begins with a chronological list of opening games, noting the opposing team, score, starting pitcher, pitcher of record, and homerun hitters. This is followed by an accounting of the team's overall record, at home record, away record, and record against specific teams. Totals for major statistical categories are given, as well as individual marks for pitching, hitting and fielding. Appendices list grand slams, overall team and individual opening day records, and year-by-year scores.