Description
Book Synopsis Part history, part memoir, part statistical analysis, this book tells the remarkable and largely forgotten story of how the baseball hotbed of Canada''s northeastern Maritime provinces evolved into NCAA North during the 1940s and 1950s. A summer training ground for players from leading U.S. college programs, the region attracted talented players seeking higher salaries than they could get in the American minor league system.
Major league organizations came to scout blue-chip prospects. In this competitive environment, only the best were able to crack the rosters of town teams in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Maine. A Quality of Competition Index for various northeast leagues provides major league equivalencies for selected players.
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface: Baseball, Memory and History
- One. The Postwar Flourishing of Baseball in the Maritimes
- Two. Home Diamonds: Local Stars of Postwar Maritime Baseball
- Three. The Barnstorming Era: American Baseball's Northward Glance, 1948–50
- Four. Tipping the Balance: The American Influence and the Marginalization of Local Players
- Five. Bill Brooks, Art Hoch and the Carolinian Connection
- Six. "NCAA North": CWS Champions, Bonus Babies and All-Americans
- Seven. Playing in "Color Bar Limbo": Black Players in the Maritimes, 1946–60
- Eight. Borderlands Baseball: New Brunswick and Maine
- Nine. Troublesome Times: 1955–57
- Ten. Playing Out the String: 1957–59
- Eleven. Post-Game Reminiscences
- Twelve. Great Performers, Great Performances: A Statistical Retrospective
- Appendix 1: Career Batting and Major League Equivalencies: Maritimes and Maine
- Appendix 2: Single-Season Batting and Major League Equivalencies: Maritimes and Maine
- Appendix 3: Career Pitching
- Appendix 4: Players from Major NCAA Programs
- Essay on Sources
- Chapter Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
