{"product_id":"ted-sullivan-barnacle-of-baseball-9781476684789","title":"Ted Sullivan Barnacle of Baseball","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   In his day, perhaps no one in baseball was better known than Irish-born Timothy Paul Ted Sullivan. For 50 years, America''s sportswriters sang his praises, genuflected to his genius and bought his blarney by the barrel. Damon Runyon dubbed him The Celebrated Carpetbagger of Baseball. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   Cunning, fast-talking, witty and sober, Sullivan was the game''s first player agent, a groundbreaking scout who pulled future Hall of Famers from the bushes, an author, a playwright and a baseball evangelist who promoted the game across five continents. He coined the term fan and was among the first to suggest the designated hitter--because pitchers were a lot of whippoorwill swingers. But he was also a convert to the Jim Crow attitudes of his day--black ballplayers were unimaginable to him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   Unearthing thousands of contemporaneous newspaper accounts, this first exhaustive biography of Hustlin'' Ted Sullivan recounts the life and career of one of the greatest hucksters in the histor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\tv\u003cbr\u003ePreface by Pat O'Neill\t1\u003cbr\u003e 1. A Long, Long Way from Clare to Here\t7\u003cbr\u003e 2. Young Sullivan at Old St. Mary's: Jesuit Priests, Prairie Fires, and a Freshman Phenom\t12\u003cbr\u003e 3. Playing for Peanuts: Ted and Charlie Take Their Game to Dubuque\t18\u003cbr\u003e 4. In Fast Company: 1879 Dubuque Rabbits\t23\u003cbr\u003e 5. Taking on \"The Infidels\"\t30\u003cbr\u003e 6. A Sorry State of the Union\t44\u003cbr\u003e 7. Back to the Bushes\t55\u003cbr\u003e 8. Not Milwaukee's Best\t68\u003cbr\u003e 9. Behind the Plate\t74\u003cbr\u003e10. \"Senator Sullivan\" Goes to Washington\t77\u003cbr\u003e11. Back to the \"Auld\" Country\t90\u003cbr\u003e12. Things Go South: Chattanooga and \"The Dry Grins,\" 1892\t102\u003cbr\u003e13. A Tale of Two Sullivans\t109\u003cbr\u003e14. At Home on the Range\t113\u003cbr\u003e15. Ted Herds His Steers North to New Haven\t121\u003cbr\u003e16. Dubuque, Part II\t128\u003cbr\u003e17. \"Same Old Trick\": Southern Postscript, 1899\t135\u003cbr\u003e18. A Midwife of the American League\t139\u003cbr\u003e19. The Prodigal Hustler Returns\t149\u003cbr\u003e20. \"The Original Gumshoe Man\": Beating the Bushes for Prospects\t154\u003cbr\u003e21. Sullivan's ­Off-Base Humor\t168\u003cbr\u003e22. Baseball's Ubiquitous Ambassador\t176\u003cbr\u003e23. Show Him the Money\t185\u003cbr\u003e24. Next Stop: The World\t195\u003cbr\u003e25. Ted's Magic Lantern Show\t218\u003cbr\u003e26. Sox and Saints: Hall of Famers Slay St. Mary's\t223\u003cbr\u003e27. Twilight of a Colorful Career\t231\u003cbr\u003e28. Ted's Last Hurrah\t238\u003cbr\u003e29. The Third Strike\t245\u003cbr\u003eSporting Editor's Notes\t253\u003cbr\u003eChapter Notes\t257\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\t269\u003cbr\u003eIndex\t273\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040491667799,"sku":"9781476684789","price":27.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476684789.jpg?v=1750946917","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ted-sullivan-barnacle-of-baseball-9781476684789","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}