Major League Baseball Profiles, 1871-1900, Volume 1: The Ballplayers Who Built the Game
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (946 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0803230249 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 688 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"A priceless reference work" according to Marc Ranger. Major League Baseball Profiles is a huge, impressive and well research collection of short players biographies from 1871 to 1900. It covers players from the National Association, the American Association, the Player's League, the National League and the forgotten Union Association.The enormous amount of information the book provides is overwhelming to say the least. Stats are a part of the bios, but not it's essential element. You'll . "Nemec and the team of authors he assembled to undertake this project did a fine job." according to Brian Engelhardt. This book is not only very thorough in the information provided- often times from remote sources- it also presents the various profiles in a very entertaining manner. There is a dry humor that surfaces in many of the profiles that makes reading random bios enjoyable- totally unrelated to any research project.From this the reader learns that the game may have been different in many ways in the 19th century- rules were changing and matt
--Jim Frutchey . From Booklist Nemec, a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and the author of several quiz books about the sport, backs all of his work with amazing research and obvious passion for the game. Basic statistical records and colorful nicknames are included for each player. It is an indispensible resource for anyone wishing to gain a better understanding of the formative years of big-league baseball. Chapters are divided according to the positions of the players. Major League Baseball Profiles provides a fascinating and unique view of the scores of individuals who played a role in laying the foundation for the modern game. The first volume, The Ballplayers Who Built the Game, is a treasure trove of the more obscure figures from early
In its infancy, major league baseball was anyone’s game, open to a dizzying array of rogues and scamps, athletic giants and captains of industry, hustlers, managers, and umpires who transformed club-based teams into the first professional federations with formalized rules—and commercial considerations. This two-volume work—with its profiles of every key contributor to the major league game from May 4, 1871, through December 31, 1900—is truly “inside baseball.” Volume 1 profiles all the key position players and pitchers of the nineteenth century, giving detailed information about each player’s role in the game, his debut and finale, high points and low, most important achievements, relationship to ground-breaking diamond occurrences, in addition to fascinating personal information. More than a collection of mere facts and statistics, Major League Baseball Profiles provides a unique history of the evolution of major league baseball, from the date of the first major league game i