A Game of Brawl: The Orioles, the Beaneaters, and the Battle for the 1897 Pennant
Autor Bill Felber Cuvânt înainte de Edward M. Kennedyen Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2014
Bill Felber brings to life the most intensely watched team sporting event in the country’s history to that time. His book captures the drama of the final week, as the race came down to a three-game series. And finally, it conveys the madness of the third and decisive game, when thirty thousand fans literally knocked down the gates and walls of a facility designed to hold ten thousand to watch the Beaneaters grind out a win and bring down baseball’s first and most notorious evil empire.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780803226364
ISBN-10: 0803226365
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 16 photographs, 5 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Nebraska Paperback
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0803226365
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 16 photographs, 5 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Nebraska Paperback
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Locul publicării:United States
Notă biografică
Bill Felber recently retired as the executive editor of the Manhattan Mercury. He is the author of The Book on the Book: An Inquiry into Which Strategies in the Modern Game Actually Work.
Cuprins
List of Illustrations
Foreword by Senator Edward M. Kennedy
Sources and Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Baseball's Original Evil Empire
2. The Royal Rooters
3. Spring Thunderbolts
4. Parade of Champions
5. Suspected Criminals
6. Streaks of June
7. Sunday Misdemeanors
8. The Rise and Fall of Louis Sockalexis
9. Day Job for Garroters
10. Don't They Keep Warm?
11. Fall in Baltimore
Afterword
Appendix
Notes
Recenzii
“Felber . . . excels at demonstrating the dissimilarities between these two evenly matched opponents. . . . [He] gives a spirited retelling of the season, giving life to greedy owners, rabid fans, drunken ballplayers and terrorized umpires, all the while bringing to life an era of baseball when home runs were a rarity, players fielded with no gloves and starting pitchers threw almost 400 innings a season.”—Publishers Weekly
“Bill Felber has woven a picturesque tale of how baseball was played more than 100 years ago in the rowdy days of the 1890s. The story, although concentrating on the 1897 pennant race between Baltimore and Boston, vividly describes the atmosphere of the game on and off the field, and in doing so creates a rollicking good tale to boot.”—Pete Palmer, coeditor of ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia, 4th edition
“This book is a hoot from start to the cliff-hanging conclusion.”—John Linsenmeyer, Greenwich Time (CT)
“A fine source of stories about the days when . . . Boston fans celebrated victories by tossing into the air beans that they had carried to the games in their pockets for that purpose, and when an umpire could be arrested twice in one season without losing his job.”—Bill Littlefield, WBUR-FM Radio, NPR’s “Only a Game”