Turbulent Seasons

Baseball in 1890-1891
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4766-6246-6
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

This is the first book to examine in close detail the 1890 and 1891 major-league seasons, recapturing a colorful era in early baseball history when club owners quarreled, players berated umpires, sportswriters criticized and ridiculed both owners and players, and the National Game, as it was universally called, made halting progress toward the sport and business it became in the twentieth century. The two seasons saw the formation in 1890 of the Players League by the Brotherhood of Professional Ball Players, America's first sports union; the failure of the players' efforts to stand up to the owners; the collapse of a new National Agreement between the National League and the American Association; and the eventual amalgamation of four Association franchises into the National League, creating a decade of relative peace under the twelve-club "big league.

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Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Ballsportarten Badminton Baseball

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. 1889: The National Game
2. 1890: "Seven Stories with a Mansard Roof"
3. 1890: "Trying for Years to Get into a First-class League"
4. 1890: "Rotting as Fast as Nature Will Let Them"
5. 1890–91: "Lunkheads of the First Water"
6. 1891: "Mad Clean Through"
7. 1891: "I Should Expect to Be Hanged"
8. 1891–92: "Men of Money Have About Come to Their Senses"
Appendix: Some Lives Afterward
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Charles C. Alexander, Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus, Ohio University, has written 14 books, the last eight of which have dealt with American baseball history. He lives in Hamilton, Ohio.