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Given the level of competition and the expansive length of the season, it is a remarkable accomplishment for a team to make multiple World Series appearances in a short timespan. From the Baltimore Orioles of the 1800s who would go to any length to winincluding physically accosting opponentsto the 1934 Cardinals known as the Gashouse Gang for their rough tactics and determination, and on to George Steinbrenner's dominant Yankees of the late twentieth century, baseball's greatest teams somehow found a way to win year after year. Spanning three centuries of the game, Baseball's Dynasties and the Players Who Built Them examines twenty-two of baseball's most iconic teams. Each chapter not only chronicles the club's era of supremacy, but also provides an in-depth look at the players who helped make their teams great. 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Weeks nicely encapsulates lots of data in practical prose, capturing the swashbuckling mood of baseball’s early years with clever phrases ('ill-fated Roanoke Magicians who disappeared from the Virginia league'). Weeks avoids the peril of catering strictly to trivia fans, but his book can still serve as a quick reference, filled with a long list of notable players rarely mentioned outside their local team lore. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eIn Baseball’s Dynasties and the Players Who Built Them, Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) member, author, and baseball enthusiast Jonathan Weeks provides a detailed yet approachable look at some of the most successful teams in Major League Baseball’s (MLB) history.... 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Hubler and Joshua H. Drazen chronicle the history of baseball in the capital during World War II. . .I did learn a few things from this book. Franklin Roosevelt, for example, was a great baseball fan who managed the team at Groton School and helped raise the American flag at Griffith Stadium on opening day in 1917. * The Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003eAnyone who thinks Major League baseball during the Second World War was dull, amateurish and devoid of truly exceptional play because most of the stars were off fighting the war should pick up a copy of The Nats and the Grays, How Baseball in the Nation’s Capital Survived WWII and Changed the Game Forever to be disabused of such erroneous notions. . . . This extraordinary history by David E. Hubler and Joshua H. Drazen is filled with colorful stories and previously unknown anecdotes that can fuel a hot stove league for weeks, if not months. . . .[The] anecdotes . . . are told in sharp, unadorned prose devoid of sports jargon and a plethora of statistics, but often with insight and humor as befitting such an outstanding sports history. It belongs on the library shelves of all baseball fans and World War II history buffs. * East Orlando Post *\u003cbr\u003eHistory buffs and baseball fans get a lesson in an often overshadowed story of how World War II affected America’s favorite pastime. Readers get a look at the relationship FDR had with the game, the missions players took on during the war and the Negro League’s struggle for equality. * Northern Virginia Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eA compelling examination of the impact of the war on Washington, DC's two baseball teams as well as on major league baseball as a whole. * University of New Hampshire Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eWith co-author David E. 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The Nats and the Grays also details crucial events on the home front, such as the creation of the GI Bill, the internment of Japanese Americans, labor strikes, and the fight for racial equality. World War II buffs, Negro League historians, baseball enthusiasts, and fans of the present-day Washington Nationals will all find this book on wartime baseball a fascinating and informative read. * DeWitt Clinton Alumni Association *\u003cbr\u003eWhether you are a Baby Boomer whose mom threw out your baseball cards, or a DC area Millennials with interest sky high for the current Washington Nationals with its heaps of young talent and scurrying around the bases, larger than life-sized Presidents, there is a new book for you. . . .Based upon a recent rich, lively, deeply enthralling interview, Hubler’s book is no dry history or ribald fiction. It is a special book about rarely written events from a key time now fading from us. * DC Metro Theater Arts *\u003cbr\u003eThe story of how Major League Baseball survived World War II is often little more than an interruption in the historical narrative, but David Hubler and Joshua Drazen provide a compelling tale of two Washington teams—the Homestead Grays and the Washington Nationals—set skillfully against the backdrop of wartime DC.  Baseball provided not only much needed entertainment but its own unlikely heroes fighting for victory.  This story is one that needed telling and it makes great reading. -- Ted Leavengood, managing editor of seamheads.com\u003cbr\u003eAn important contribution to baseball, Washington Senators, and American history. With clarity and insight, Hubler and Drazen provide the full story of baseball's role in the nation's capital during a critical period in the twentieth century. -- Richard Zamoff, director of the Jackie Robinson Project\u003cbr\u003eBaseball remains our national pastime because it is the only sport that honors its past. A significant part of that past—the years of World War II in Washington, DC—are brought to life in vivid prose by David Hubler and Joshua Drazen in The Nats and the Grays. The authors seamlessly weave together the stories of those troubled seasons with the events and mood of the war years and the first steps toward the racial integration of the major leagues. A powerful performance. -- Stanley Cohen, award-winning newspaper and magazine journalist, author of The Game They Played and A Magic Summer: The Amazin’ Story of the 1969 New York Mets\u003cbr\u003eA meticulously researched and wonderfully written account of a tumultuous time in baseball and America. This book makes a great addition to every serious fan's baseball library. -- Hal Bock, retired Associated Press columnist\u003cbr\u003eDavid E. Hubler and Joshua H. Drazen’s The Nats and the Grays is a colorful and most satisfying history of modern baseball in Washington, DC. This book is both richly detailed and genuinely insightful—a perfect combination for those of us who love reading about our favorite game. -- Paul Dickson, author of Bill Veek: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick and The Dickson Baseball Dictionary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments Preface Chapter One 1941: BP – Before Pearl Harbor Chapter Two 1942: Changing Uniforms Chapter Three 1943: Coming Up Just Short Chapter Four 1944: Meet Me in St. Louie, Bluege Chapter Five 1945: Rounding Third and Heading Home Afterword 1946: Extra Innings Notes Index About The Authors","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48885646688599,"sku":"9781442281905","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442281905.jpg?v=1722537207"},{"product_id":"essential-topics-in-baseball-from-performance-analysis-to-injury-prevention-9781536165333","title":"Essential Topics in Baseball: From Performance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBaseball is a game of tabulation and tracking. While baseball has a long and storied history of analyzing performance, it was not until recent history that analytical approaches have been applied to the medical and physical aspects of baseball. In today's game, at every level, baseball players are tracked for factors beyond wins and losses, to help maintain player health, or in an attempt to improve performance. This book explores the future of baseball monitoring in the context of being able to handle, interpret, and extrapolate predictions from the masses of data being collected. In baseball, the throwing motion consists of a sequence of movements from the lower limbs to the upper limbs through the trunk. Failures in the sequence of movements can place an excess load on the upper arm and causes various disorders, the main causes being a high number of throws and inadequate throwing form. Too many throws will cause medial collateral ligament injury of the elbow and rotator cuff tear and periarthritis of the shoulder. As such, the authors aim to determine whether upper extremity strength is predictive of injury, how upper extremity strength can be reliably and practically tested in the clinic, and whether or not strengthening programs will have an effect on upper extremity strength ratios, as well as compare and contrast current throwing programs found in the literature. Additionally, ten right-handed college baseball batters participated in an experiment. They swung a bat towards five imaginary impact locations of different heights and lateral positions in the strike zone. They also hit a ball mounted on a tee stand placed in the strike zone which corresponded to the same five locations. The process was repeated seven times for each location, all of which were randomly assigned. Movements of the bat and ball were captured by an optical motion capture system at 250 Hz and 3-dimensional coordinates of the bat and ball were calculated. The freely available Statcast Trackman data provides continuous location coordinates for individual pitches using Doppler radar. This detailed spatial information can be employed to visualize a batter's ability across regions in and around the strike zone. As such, the authors summarize classical geostatistical methodology and show how it can be applied to real data. In another study, the authors explore hitting a stable ball mounted on a tee stand, rather than hitting a flying ball, to focus on the importance of vision in executing a batter's prepared or preplanned hitting movement for an impact location. This is achieved by eliminating the necessity of processing visual information regarding the ball's flight to predict the time and location of the pitch's arrival and modulate the movement with respect to the flight of the pitch. The closing chapter examines the long history of tobacco use in baseball that dates back to the 19th century and the creation of the sport. 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Yet often overlooked is the talented lineup from the following year. The 1928 Yankees even started the season on track to meet and possibly surpass the records and accomplishments of the season before.  The 1928 New York Yankees: The Return of Murderers’ Row tells the story of this underrated squad that endured a roller-coaster season. With many players from the 1927 team still in the lineup—including Bob Meusel, Earle Combs, Mark Koenig, Tony Lazzeri, Lou Gehrig, and Babe Ruth—the Yankees charged out of the gates to start the regular season on top of the standings. Yet, with just three weeks remaining in the season, the Yankees saw their lead disappear. Manager Miller Huggins pulled together his patchwork pitching staff and banged-up regulars and reserves to mount a nail-biting fight to the finish.  Highlighted by numerous photos of the players, this detailed and thoroughly researched book provides an intimate look into a season to remember. From the Yankees’ preseason trip to Florida through their dominance, collapse, and subsequent rise, The 1928 New York Yankees will entertain and educate fans and historians of the national pastime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 1927 New York Yankees were known as Murderers’ Row. As a team, they batted .307, scored almost 1,000 runs, and smashed 158 home runs in a 154-game season on their way to 110 wins, a 19-game finish ahead of the second-place Philadelphia Athletics, and a World Series title. This meticulously researched, heavily footnoted book, by a member of the Society for Baseball Research, describes their encore in 1928. That season was up and down, as the 1928 version of the team endured a miserable spring training then won an incredible 80 percent of their games through the first week of June and opened up a double-digit lead over the Athletics by early July. Then the roller-coaster season hurtled downward, and a combination of so-so play by New York and a performance by the Athletics that nearly matched the Yankees’ early-season blitz led to the Bronx Bombers briefly falling into second place before eking out the pennant by two and a half games before sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series. VERDICT. . . .[T]rue lovers of Yankee lore and baseball historians will be appreciative. * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003eThe 1927 New York Yankees were arguably the greatest baseball team ever, perhaps even the greatest team in any American sport, winning 110 games and sweeping the World Series against the Pittsburgh Pirates.  Gentile argues that the 1928 Yankees, led again by Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, were almost as good, winning 101 games and sweeping the World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals.  Gentile explores this historic season by placing it in context, examining the greatest teams prior to 1928, looking at the American culture of the time, and detailing what their closest competitors did to try to combat the Yankees’ dominance.  Gentile describes how the team was built, making important changes in the pitching staff over the previous season, and how it prepared during spring training to defend its championship.  The bulk of the book is a day-by-day account of the season, drawn from newspaper accounts and peppered with colorful anecdotes.  This exemplary sports history has a bibliography, a detailed index, and 13 photographs. * American Reference Books Annual *\u003cbr\u003eThe 1928 Yankees: The Return of Murderers’ Row is a richly detailed, thoroughly researched look at a team that was stocked with veterans like Ruth, Gehrig, Hoyt, Bob Meusel, Earle Combs and Tony Lazzeri. . . .Gentile’s research and attention to detail is priceless. . . .[I]f you enjoy the history of the game, Gentile provides a different, interesting look at a team that battled hard to win its sixth A.L. pennant of the 1920s before cruising to a four-game sweep of St. Louis in the World Series. * The Tampa Tribune *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote on Sources Preface\t  Introduction - The Great Teams of Baseball   Part I - The Background   Chapter 1:  We Live In a Marvelous Age  Chapter 2: One of the Best Cities in the Circuit   Part II - The Offseason and Spring Training  Chapter 3: The Trade Embargo and Baseball’s Winter Meetings  Chapter 4: Crescent Lake Park and the Trek North   Part III -  The Regular Season  Chapter 5: Epidemics of Cold and Flu  Chapter 6: Haymaking Season  Chapter 7: The Makeup Games Begin  Chapter 8: Yawning Spaces in Grandstands  Chapter 9: A Painful Contrast  Chapter 10: A Fine Kettle of Fish Chapter 11: Give Me Pennock and We'll Win  Chapter 12: Failure to Harvest Hits  Chapter 13: Won or Lost in the West   Part IV - The Postseason  Chapter 14: Just the Way the Colonel Likes It   Afterword Postscript  Appendix  Bibliography Index About the Author","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48886214656343,"sku":"9781538114926","price":32.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538114926.jpg?v=1722539238"},{"product_id":"the-reshaping-of-americas-game-major-league-baseball-after-the-players-strike-9781538145951","title":"The Reshaping of America's Game: Major League","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Reshaping of America's Game describes the major developments and challenges that took place in Major League Baseball during the 25-plus years following the players' strike, including cheating scandals, steroids, analytics, and changing demographics.","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48886222160215,"sku":"9781538145951","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538145951.jpg?v=1722539265"},{"product_id":"whispers-of-the-gods-tales-from-baseball-s-golden-age-told-by-the-men-who-played-it-9781538154878","title":"Whispers of the Gods: Tales from Baseball’s","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Whispers of the Gods, bestselling author Peter Golenbock brings to life baseball greats from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s through timeless stories told straight from the players themselves. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike the enduring classic The Glory of Their Times, this book features the reminiscences of baseball legends, pulled from hundreds of hours of taped interviews with the author. 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Sam helped to turn around the lives of players who, just like him, had fallen into the abyss of addiction or faced psychological and emotional problems that were destroying their careers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith details of his own severe battles with depression and addiction told alongside the struggles of players who came to him for help, The Saga of Sudden Sam offers special insight into the longstanding addiction issues that plague Major League Baseball. It also provides understanding and hope to anyone struggling with addiction and shows that recovery is attainable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eI've known Sam since 1962 when I was a 17 year old assistant clubhouse manager for the Angels. Of all the players I've known throughout the years I've respected Sam the most. He has been a very close friend, mentor and literally saved my life. 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But Didn't We Have Fun? will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about baseball's origins. Peter Morris, author of the prizewinning A Game of Inches, takes a fresh look at the early amateur years of the game. Mr. Morris retrieves a lost era and a lost way of life. Offering a challenging new perspective on baseball's earliest years, and conveying the sense of delight that once pervaded the game and its players, Mr. Morris supplants old myths with a story just as marvelous-but one that really happened. With 25 rare photographs and drawings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI first heard about Peter Morris because he was one of America’s preeminent Scrabble players. Now he has achieved an even greater distinction: one of America’s preeminent baseball historians. But Didn’t We Have Fun? is exhaustively researched and artfully written—an invaluable contribution to the early history of our sport and our country. -- Stefan Fatsis, author of \u003ci\u003eWord Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players\u003ci\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWild\u003cbr\u003eIf you think baseball’s rich history begins with the American League in 1901, or with the National League in 1876, or even with the National Association in 1871, think again. Thanks to Peter Morris, now we know that the game’s pioneer days—the nearly four decades prior to the first professional ‘league’—might have been the richest of them all. -- Rob Neyer\u003cbr\u003ePeter Morris takes us on a fascinating and highly entertaining journey through the earliest—the very earliest—days of our National Pastime. To read this book is to see Baseball emerging from its womb and blinking its eyes and stretching its arms as it begins to take shape and through trial and error grows into its remarkable and compelling existence. -- Donald Honig\u003cbr\u003eAbner Doubleday just struck out. If you ever wondered where baseball came from—really came from—this story is for you. It’s the real story of how America’s game is much more about America than it is about a game. Entertaining and informative, I think Morris is headed for another medal. -- Will Carroll\u003cbr\u003eIn this title, which is sure to be popular, prolific baseball historian Morris engagingly describes the poorly appreciated early years of the game as it evolved to adopt a consistent set of rules. The well-known but much-misunderstood contributions of the New York Knickerbocker Club are reviewed fully, together with the fascinating depictions of the development of umpiring, professionalism, and sportsmanship. A fine addition to all collections. * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003eMorris, a baseball scholar and historian, shows us around the ancient, pre-professional era of baseball with charming familiarity and dense, nuanced detail. -- Abe Lebovic * am New York *\u003cbr\u003eEntertaining and informative. -- Jonathan Yardley * The Review of Higher Education *\u003cbr\u003eMorris is very clear: The pioneers did have fun. * Book Digest *\u003cbr\u003eAn entertaining, enlightening journey. For fans and non-fans alike, Morris’s book serves as an interesting window into the leisure culture of the nation leading up to and following directly after the Civil War. -- Wilson McBee * Popmatters *\u003cbr\u003eMorris’s study of baseball’s evolution during its pre-professional years is a model of careful scholarship, use of original sources, and elegant writing. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eAs the pages turn, professional baseball comes together before our eyes, and a bunch of diverse tributaries of proto-baseball flow, year by year, into the mighty, formalized, commercial river that we know today as the National Pastime. -- Ted Anthony * Associated Press *\u003cbr\u003eDedicated statistics geeks will revel in the seemingly inexhaustible supply of arcane facts and figures…. 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His enthusiasm adds to the charm with which he tells his story. * The Historian *\u003cbr\u003e[Scholars] may find that Porter's challenging, almost taunting tone inspires them to express their own beliefs and conclusions more forcefully, in keeping or at odds with what they will read in his essay. * Journal of Genocide Research *\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Ivan R Dee, Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48886364275031,"sku":"9781566638494","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781566638494.jpg?v=1722539771"},{"product_id":"how-baseball-happened-outrageous-lies-exposed-the-true-story-revealed-9781567926774","title":"How Baseball Happened: Outrageous Lies Exposed!","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe fascinating, true, story of baseball’s amateur origins. “Explores the conditions and factors that begat the game in the 19th century and turned it into the national pastime....A delightful look at a young nation creating a pastime that was love from the first crack of the bat.”—Paul Dickson, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBaseball’s true founders don’t have plaques in Cooperstown. The founders were the hundreds of uncredited amateurs — ordinary people — who played without gloves, facemasks or performance incentives in the middle decades of the 19th century. Unlike today’s pro athletes, they lived full lives outside of sports. They worked, built businesses and fought against the South in the Civil War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut that’s not the way the story has been told. The wrongness of baseball history can be staggering. You may have heard that Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright invented baseball. Neither did. You may have been told that a club called the Knickerbockers played the first baseball game in 1846. They didn’t. You have read that baseball’s color line was uncrossed and unchallenged until Jackie Robinson in 1947. Nope. You have been told that the clean, corporate 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings were baseball’s first professional club. Not true. They weren’t the first professionals; they weren’t all that clean, either. You may have heard Cooperstown, Hoboken, or New York City called the birthplace of baseball, but not Brooklyn. Yet Brooklyn was the home of baseball’s first fans, the first ballpark, the first statistics—and modern pitching.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBaseball was originally supposed to be played, not watched. This changed when crowds began to show up at games in Brooklyn in the late 1850s. We fans weren’t invited to the party; we crashed it. Professionalism wasn’t part of the plan either, but when an 1858 Brooklyn versus New York City series accidentally proved that people would pay to see a game, the writing was on the outfield wall.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the first professional league was formed in 1871, baseball was already a fully formed modern sport with championships, media coverage, and famous stars. Professional baseball invented an organization, but not the sport itself. Baseball’s amazing amateurs had already done that.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas W. 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He contends that neither Abner Doubleday, Alexander Cartwright nor Henry Chadwick fathered the game but rather it was originated by a group of amateurs in New York City.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Baseball has fabricated its own history several times over, but its origin story matters. In this entertaining narrative, Gilbert shows how the game was developed by amateurs, in part to introduce healthier habits and the sporting life in a country that didn't really have either.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMilwaukee Journal Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Brilliantly gathers hidden treasure long buried in newspaper accounts and diaries to present a rich and nuanced picture of American baseball as it grew and blossomed. Along the way, he explodes myths that have long shaped our understanding of this great game. This is a tart and funny trip through the raucous and aspiring culture that shaped baseball, with its volunteer firefighters, urban professionals, bloodstained butchers, and brawling gamblers.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eEdward Achorn\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvery Drop of Blood: The Summer of Beer and Whiskey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFifty-nine in ’84\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A lively and often funny account of how baseball became THE national sport. At once irreverent and loving, Gilbert explodes baseball's founding myths while painting a rich portrait of a forgotten America. For baseball lovers and history buffs alike.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eRobert Kagan\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A brilliant new approach to our game and its author tells a hundred stories you haven’t heard before.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJohn Thorn, Official Historian, Major League Baseball\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by John Thorn\u003cbr\u003e  Amateur Era Timeline\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter One: The Wrongness of Baseball History\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter Two: Wasps in the Attic\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter Three: Escape from the City\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter Four: What Makes a River\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter Five: It Happened in Brooklyn\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter Six: A Ballplayer's Tale\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter Seven: Philadelphia Stories\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter Eight: Amateur Hour\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter Nine: Traveling Team\u003cbr\u003e  Afterword\u003cbr\u003e  Appendix 1: Game Versus Sport\u003cbr\u003e  Appendix 2: What happened to . . .\u003cbr\u003e  Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e  Photo Credits, Notes\u003cbr\u003e  Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David R. 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This is a tart and funny trip through the raucous and aspiring culture that shaped baseball, with its volunteer firefighters, urban professionals, bloodstained butchers, and brawling gamblers.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eEdward Achorn\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvery Drop of Blood: The Summer of Beer and Whiskey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFifty-nine in ’84\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A lively and often funny account of how baseball became THE national sport. At once irreverent and loving, Gilbert explodes baseball's founding myths while painting a rich portrait of a forgotten America. For baseball lovers and history buffs alike.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eRobert Kagan\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A brilliant new approach to our game and its author tells a hundred stories you haven’t heard before.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJohn Thorn, Official Historian, Major League Baseball\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by John Thorn\u003cbr\u003e  Amateur Era Timeline\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter One: The Wrongness of Baseball History\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter Two: Wasps in the Attic\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter Three: Escape from the City\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter Four: What Makes a River\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter Five: It Happened in Brooklyn\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter Six: A Ballplayer's Tale\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter Seven: Philadelphia Stories\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter Eight: Amateur Hour\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter Nine: Traveling Team\u003cbr\u003e  Afterword\u003cbr\u003e  Appendix 1: Game Versus Sport\u003cbr\u003e  Appendix 2: What happened to . . .\u003cbr\u003e  Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e  Photo Credits, Notes\u003cbr\u003e  Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David R. 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Abraham Lincoln \u0026amp; Baseball: Two Symbols of American Identity\u003cbr\u003e Chief Justice Frank J. Williams\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eStruck Out but Never Retired\u003cbr\u003e Ernest Thayer’s timeless ode to the Mighty Casey turns 125 this year\u003cbr\u003e Richard Pioreck\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eDiamonds \u0026amp; Railroads\u003cbr\u003e The advent of regional rail service made baseball as we know it possible\u003cbr\u003e Steve Buckley\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eDiamonds to Dollars\u003cbr\u003e A.G. Spalding revolutionized the game on and off the field\u003cbr\u003e Bill Francis\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMail, Money, and the National Pastime\u003cbr\u003e Baseball has long been a symbol of America on stamps and coins\u003cbr\u003e David Moriah\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBaseball’s Greatest Skit\u003cbr\u003e Abbott and Costello’s classic routine has become film royalty\u003cbr\u003e Tim Wiles\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eSeventy-Five Years on the Small Screen\u003cbr\u003e How television transformed baseball into a national obsession\u003cbr\u003e Curt Smith\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCapping Things Off\u003cbr\u003e Baseball has added a staple to modern culture and fashion\u003cbr\u003e George Vecsey\u003c\/p\u003e  Chapter 2: Artifact Spotlight \u003cp\u003eA Paper Trail to History\u003cbr\u003e Scorecard from game three of 1951 NL playoff echoes Russ Hodges’ legendary call\u003cbr\u003e Tim Wiles\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTo Australia…and Beyond\u003cbr\u003e 125 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Bodley\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePaige in History\u003cbr\u003e In 1971, Satchel Paige came to Cooperstown, opening the door for more legends\u003cbr\u003e Scott Pitoniak\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe First Face of Baseball\u003cbr\u003e Christy Mathewson changed the way the public perceived ballplayers\u003cbr\u003e Larry Brunt\u003c\/p\u003e  Chapter 4: The African American Baseball Experience \u003cp\u003eHomers Defeat Hate\u003cbr\u003e Hank Aaron overcame bigotry in his pursuit of Babe Ruth’s record\u003cbr\u003e Terence Moore\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePaper Trail\u003cbr\u003e Black publications provide much of the known record of the Negro Leagues\u003cbr\u003e Scott Pitoniak\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eA Road to Equality\u003cbr\u003e Black barnstormers, led by Hall of Famer Satchel Paige, left remarkable legacy\u003cbr\u003e Larry Tye\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eJackie’s Rookie Season\u003cbr\u003e In 1947, Jack Roosevelt Robinson became the first winner of the 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Effort\u003cbr\u003e Fifty years ago, Juan Marichal and Warren Spahn pitched a game for the ages\u003cbr\u003e Jim Kaplan\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Great Home Run Race\u003cbr\u003e Fifty years have passed since Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle chased the Babe\u003cbr\u003e Scott Pitoniak\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMake His a Double\u003cbr\u003e Seventy-five years ago, Johnny Vander Meer set what may be an unbreakable record\u003cbr\u003e Bill Francis\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Sunday Manager\u003cbr\u003e Burt Shotton faced challenges that no skipper ever had while leading the Dodgers to the 1947 NL pennant\u003cbr\u003e Steve Wulf\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Road Stockings\u003cbr\u003e The 1869 trips by the Cincinnati baseball team made the game famous throughout the United States\u003cbr\u003e John Erardi\u003c\/p\u003e  Chapter 6: Latino Legacy \u003cp\u003eRoberto Clemente: The Father of Puerto Rican Baseball\u003cbr\u003e Luis R. 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Through a skillful analysis that addresses Robinson’s political activism and his prolific writings, as well as the ways that he has been memorialized, Naze invites us to understand that Jackie Robinson speaks not only to the ages but to our own time.”—Robert E. Terrill, professor of rhetoric in the Department of English at Indiana University, Bloomington\u003cbr\u003e“A compelling contribution to the scholarship on Jackie Robinson and also on the Negro Leagues.”—Michael Butterworth, professor of communication studies and director of the Center for Sports Communication \u0026amp; Media at the University of Texas at Austin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface    \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Have We Failed Jackie Robinson’s Legacy?    \u003cbr\u003e 1. Robinson’s Postplaying Career: A Political Impact    \u003cbr\u003e 2. 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