Outsider Baseball : The Weird World of Hardball on the Fringe, 18761950.
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Outsider Baseball : The Weird World of Hardball on the Fringe, 18761950.
Yazar:
Simkus, Scott.
ISBN:
9781613748176
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (324 pages)
İçerik:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Introduction -- 1 The Cedar Rapids Baseball Bunker -- 2 Baseball's Rosetta Stone -- 3 The Rise of the National League -- 4 Ulysses -- 5 Baseball, Decoded -- 6 The Starry-Eyed Union Association -- 7 A League of Their Own -- 8 Inherit the Wind -- 9 Sorry, Charlie -- 10 Victorian Fact or Fiction -- 11 Any Given Sunday -- 12 If You Can't Beat 'Em, Steal 'Em -- 13 Fugitives and Refugees -- 14 1911 Minneapolis Millers -- 15 Mono Amarillo -- 16 Bloomers and Bloopers -- 17 Muster Roll for 1914 -- 18 Tesreau's Bears -- 19 Negro National League -- 20 Continental Divide -- 21 Fear of a Black Planet -- 22 Stranger than Fikkktion -- 23 Hot Corner in the Jazz Age -- 24 The (Almost) Real Roy Hobbs -- 25 Jimmy Clinton -- 26 Big Bang Theory -- 27 Armageddon All-Stars -- 28 The Other Jackie -- 29 1934 -- 30 Fastballs -- 31 Speed Trap -- 32 The Million-Dollar Arm -- 33 1943: The World Was Burning -- 34 Luke: .274 -- 35 Rosetta Stone (Pt. 2) -- 36 Satch -- 37 The Scarlet Numbers -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliographical Note -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover.
Özet:
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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