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 "Baseball" is Pure Entertainment - Sports Book Reivew by Harvey Frommer
Originally published in 1980, this re-issue focuses on the interrelationship of the development of baseball and society during the Golden Age of Sport.
Harvey Frommer is the celebrated author of 37 sports books, including the classics: "New York City Baseball," "Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball," "Rickey and Robinson" "The New York Yankee Encyclopedia," "A Yankee Century," and the best selling "Red Sox Vs. Yankees: The Great Rivalry" (with Frederic J. Frommer).
Baseball” is organized into five eras: 1900-1919: A Sport and a Scandal; 1920-1941: The Home Run Saves the Game; 1942-1960: The War and Post-War Period; 1961-1974: Expansion; and 1975-1999.
www.travel-watch.com /bbpureent.htm   (648 words)

  
 The Paper: Sports History
What little sports news that appeared in the paper was of a recreational nature, such as an 1887 baseball game between a team of married men and a squad of bachelors.
Winter sports also broke into print that year with the appearance of local bowling scores, basketball results and “hot-stove league” baseball news.
Burr Osborn might not have been strictly a sports writer, but he did have a regular sports beat: the Flint Vehics of the Southern Michigan baseball league.
www.flintjournal.com /125/paper/history.html   (1353 words)

  
 1910 World Series - PHA vs. CHC - Baseball-Reference.com
1910 World Series - PHA vs. CHC - Baseball-Reference.com
You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Postseason > 1910 World Series
A clearinghouse for companies and websites that want to put their information before a large number of baseball fans.
www.baseball-reference.com /postseason/1910_WS.shtml   (1057 words)

  
 1910 World Series - PHA vs. CHC - Baseball-Reference.com
A clearinghouse for companies and websites that want to put their information before a large number of baseball fans.
1910 World Series - PHA vs. CHC - Baseball-Reference.com
1910 World Series (4-1): Philadelphia Athletics (102-48) over Chicago Cubs (104-50)
www.baseball-reference.com /postseason/1910_WS.shtml   (1057 words)

  
 1910 Brooklyn Superbas Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com
Statistics may come from our work, the Baseball Databank, or other sources including SABR.org.
You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Teams > Los Angeles Dodgers > 1910 Statistics / Schedule and Splits / Transactions
www.baseball-reference.com /teams/BRO/1910.shtml   (186 words)

  
 World Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In baseball, the World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada, played in October after the end of the regular season between the pennant winner of the American League and the pennant winner of the National League.
The Series winner is determined through a best-of-seven playoff (except in 1903, 1919, 1920 and 1921 when the winner was determined through a best-of-nine playoff) and is awarded the World Series Trophy, as well as World Series rings.
These series' were arranged by the individual teams, not by the leagues directly, the same as the 1880s World's Series matches had been, and which had often proved troublesome.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baseball/World_Series   (7237 words)

  
 Nebraska Minor League Baseball
The Nebraska State League is represented in each of its four incarnations (1910-1915, 1922-1923, 1928-1938 and 1956-1959).
The MINK league of 1910-1913 is also present.
This lists the twenty two towns that have hosted minor league teams in the past and provides detail as to the teams, the towns, the fields, the players and the history of their participation.
marian.creighton.edu /~besser/baseball/second.html   (439 words)

  
 HoustonChronicle.com - The Sports Century - 1900 - 1934
In 1913, after reports that he had played two summers of minor-league baseball for pay, Thorpe was barred from college sports and future Olympics and made to return his gold medals.
It was fitting that the first pitch in the first World Series was thrown by Cy Young, the man who became the winningest pitcher in baseball history.
Johnson, who was born in Galveston in 1878, was regarded as the best fighter in the sport from 1905 through 1915.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/millennium/sportscentury/00-34.html   (1599 words)

  
 OBC: T Card Primer
The Wagner does not appear in the 350 series, which repeats many of the 150 series subjects and was probably issued in 1910.
Around the time T-206's were appearing the Ramly company issued their own series of baseball cards.
Tobacco issues appeared sporadically after that and it wasn't until 1952, when Red Man issued the first of four sets, that any concerted effort was made to sell tobacco by putting baseball cards in the package.
www.oldbaseball.com /refs/tcards.html   (6642 words)

  
 PastTimeSports Leather Helmets eBay Store About My Store
Sega Sports used our helmets for a special award this year to introduce their new Sports Games and The Indiana Pacers are using our Basketballs as a PR promo for the opening of their new collesium and as special corporate gifts to major contributors.
Past Time Sports can laser engrave the leather helmets, baseball gloves, basketballs, footballs and soccer balls when quantities are larger than 15.
Past Time Sports also sells antique style old team photography from the pre 19301s era of Football, basketball and baseball teams, all from our own private archives of rare antique photography.
cgi3.ebay.com /ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=past-timesports   (1193 words)

  
 Baseball Toaster : Mike's Baseball Rants : September 2003
The only difference will be that they won't have the glare of their World Series rings to blind them to those weaknesses.
That was, of course, the infamous 1998 Florida Marlins, whose place in history is secure as the team that "bought" the 1997 World Series and then sold off all its players the next year.
So in Rick Sutcliffe's world, "Innings, a lot of innings" and "the difference between your wins and losses" are the two keys to winning a Cy Young.
mikesrants.baseballtoaster.com /archives/2003_09.html   (13817 words)

  
 1910 New York Highlanders Roster by Baseball Almanac
Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a comprehensive team roster for the 1910 New York Highlanders with biographical data for every player who appeared in a game during the 1910 season.
To view all the positions a player appeared in during the 1910 season please click on the player's name and examine their career statistics.
This New York Highlanders roster places each name in the category where the most number of games were played by each player during the 1910 season.
www.baseball-almanac.com /teamstats/roster.php?y=1910&t=NY5   (211 words)

  
 Georgia History Timeline / Chronology 1910
On the final day of the 1910 baseball season, Ty Cobb sits out to preserve his lead in the batting average race with Nap Lajoie.
Boarding a private train in New Jersey a group of New York bankers, a presidential advisor, and a senator journey to Jekyll Island, Georgia to discuss the revision of a failed piece of legislation, the Federal Reserve Act of 1910.
Their discussions are frequently, wrongly, credited with leading to the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, which created The Federal Reserve System.
ourgeorgiahistory.com /year/1910   (290 words)

  
 get that 'negro' off the field!
With the racist baseball commissioner Judge Landis having died in 1944, the stage was set for Branch Rickey, the enigmatic head of the Brooklyn Dodgers franchise, to desegregate the national pastime.
The growth of Negro League baseball between the years 1900 and 1920 is analogous to the demographic changes of the Great Migration: black Americans moved in large numbers to the Northern cities and their urbanization yielded new and varied cultural expressions.
Baseball is America's National pastime- although it is played worldwide, its immense popularity since its inception around 1840 has placed it in the forefront of all American sport activities.
www.webcom.com /~blessed/html/negro1.html   (2563 words)

  
 1910 American League (AL) Statistics and Awards - Baseball-Reference.com
1910 American League (AL) Statistics and Awards - Baseball-Reference.com
www.baseball-reference.com /leagues/AL_1910.shtml   (154 words)

  
 John McGraw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John McGraw (governor), (1850-1910), was Governor of Washington state from 1893-1897.
John McGraw (merchant), (1815-1877), was a New York lumber tycoon, and one of the founding trustees of Cornell University.
John McGraw (baseball), (1873-1934), was a Hall of Fame baseball player and manager.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_McGraw   (108 words)

  
 Connie Mack (baseball) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mack's son Earle Mack played several games for the A's between 1910 and 1914, and also managed the team for parts of the 1937 and 1939 seasons when his father was too ill to do so.
Mack was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1937.
His 1911 and 1929 teams are considered by many to be among the greatest baseball teams of all time, and his 3,776 lifetime wins are a major league record—as are his 4,025 losses and 7,878 games managed.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cornelius_McGillicuddy   (740 words)

  
 The "Virtual Card Collection" by Dan Austin
Vintage Card Traders (VCT) - VCT is primarily a trading group whose membership is focused on collecting vintage (pre-1980) sports cards.
Old Card Traders (OCT) - OCT strikes up a nice balance between the heavily "modern card" oriented TB and the strong vintage orientation of groups like OBC and VCT.
I'm not advertising these cards, just presenting them to an audience so that they might appreciate them without having to fork over big money to add them to their collection.
www.vintagecardtraders.org /virtual   (1770 words)

  
 Mordecai Brown
Unfortunately, he was a contemporary of Christy Mathewson, and even though he posted a seven-year run from 1904 to 1910 that is one of the great stretches in baseball history, he was overshadowed by the popular Giant.
Later, newspapers called him "Three-Finger," although to his teammates he was "Miner" because he'd worked several years in a coal mine before beginning in baseball at age 24.
Although doctors were able to save his hand, they had to amputate almost all of the forefinger; the middle finger was mangled and left crooked.
www.baseball-statistics.com /HOF/Brown.html   (1770 words)

  
 BIOPROJ.SABR.ORG :: The Baseball Biography Project.
After the family moved to the Mission District of San Francisco in 1910, Berger played sandlot baseball and made the 1920 Mission High School team as a third baseman, causing a teammate, future Hall of Famer Joe Cronin, to move to shortstop and second base.
Learning that the Boston Braves had purchased his contract for two players and a reported $40,000 to $50,000 (Berger/Snyder; www.baseballlibrary.com) for the 1930 season, and that he was on his way to the major leagues, Berger first displayed the inclination to negotiate what he saw as fair compensation for his services.
The teenaged Berger prepared himself with five years of semipro baseball in the San Francisco area before he was offered his first professional contract.
www.bioproj.sabr.org /bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&bid=78&pid=973   (1770 words)

  
 Boston Red Sox : Ballpark : Fenway Park
In 1910, tired of the leasing arrangement for the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Taylor announced that he would build a ballpark for his Red Sox.
The home of the Boston Red Sox resounds with the echoes of great baseball players: Cy Young, Babe Ruth, Jimmy Collins, Duffy Lewis, Tris Speaker, Harry Hooper, Joe Cronin, Bobby Doerr, Johnny Pesky, Ted Williams, Jimmie Foxx, Carlton Fisk, Jim Rice and Carl Yastrzemski, to name just a few.
Watch exciting Red Sox baseball at historic Fenway Park.
boston.redsox.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/bos/ballpark/bos_ballpark_history.jsp   (260 words)

  
 Baseball-statistics.com
And understanding baseball is a truly noble endeavor - it is the first introduction for most American children to an activity that values victory, honors achievement, rewards teamwork and promotes heterodoxy, excellence and professionalism.
Through baseball, America learned to honor men of diverse backgrounds like Babe Ruth (who came from an orphanage), Joe DiMaggio (the son of Italian immigrants) and Willie Mays (who grew up in the Jim Crow South) for their deeds and actions.
Understanding ballparks is the key to understanding baseball - the ball just flies out of some parks and dies in others.
www.baseball-statistics.com   (568 words)

  
 EH.Net Encyclopedia: The Economic History of Major League Baseball
In 1910 syndicate ownership was formally banned, though it did occur again in 2002, when the Montreal franchise was purchased by the other 29 MLB franchises as part of a three way franchise swap involving Boston, Miami and Montreal.
Simon Rottenberg was the first economist to seriously look into professional baseball with the publication of his classic 1956 article "The Baseball Players' Labor Market." His conclusion, not surprisingly, was that the reserve clause transferred wealth from the players to owners, but had only a marginal impact on where the best players ended up.
Miller began with a series of small gains for players, including increases in the minimum salary, pension contributions by owners and limits to the maximum salary reduction owners could impose.
www.eh.net /encyclopedia/?article=haupert.mlb   (7764 words)

  
 World Series : A Comprehensive History of the World Series by Baseball Almanac
Every sport has their pinnacle trophy, but none is as coveted as baseball's World Series; a best of seven contest that celebrates our national pastime.
Pittsburgh and Boston went head-to-head for eight games proving that great baseball between the two leagues was possible and that a merger would benefit the growth of the sport.
The inaugural World Series of 1903 was a resounding success and represented the first step in healing the bruised egos of both the veteran National and fledgling American Leagues.
www.baseball-almanac.com /ws/wsmenu.shtml   (819 words)

  
 Eddie Collins The BASEBALL Page
Collins was a fantastic World Series performer for the A’s, hitting.429 in the 1910 Series with four steals, and.421 with three swipes in the 1913 Fall Classic.
In the 1910 World Series the A’s met the Cubs, a team strong in pitching.
Both of his World Series losses were huge upsets — one due to a fix and the other a shocking sweep at the hands of the "Miracle Braves." In 34 World Series games, Collins batted.328 (42-for-128), with 20 runs scored and 11 RBI.
www.thebaseballpage.com /past/pp/collinseddie   (1974 words)

  
 Chicago Cubs LEGENDS
He was a professional baseball player who played for the Chicago Cubs from 1900-1908 and 1910-1911, Boston Braves 1911-1912 and the Cincinnati Reds 1913.
He was an American baseball player who is still remembered as one of the finest second basemen of all time.
Lee Arthur Smith: Smith was born on 4th December 1957 in Shreveport, Louisiana.
www.geocities.com /chicagooo4/legends.html   (623 words)

  
 U.S. SENATOR BARBARA BOXER ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH 2004
From 1910 to 1940, an estimated 175,000 Chinese and 60,000 Japanese immigrants were detained and processed according to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
The Fuji Athletic Club, the first Japanese American baseball club, was organized in San Francisco.
After the Empire of Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, over 120,000 American citizens of Japanese descent were uprooted from their homes and sent to relocation camps in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming.
boxer.senate.gov /apa/time_1.cfm   (764 words)

  
 Bill Bradley (baseball player) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Joseph Bradley (February 13, 1878 in Cleveland, Ohio - March 11, 1954 in Cleveland) was a third baseman in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Orphans (1899-1900), Cleveland Blues, Bronchos, and Naps (1901-1910), Brooklyn Tip-Tops (1914), and Kansas City Packers (1915).
This biographical article relating to a baseball player, manager, or other figure is a stub.
The third baseman was the first Cleveland baseball player to hit for the cycle on September 24, 1903.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Bradley_(baseball_player)   (120 words)

  
 Elmer Flick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elmer Harrison Flick (January 11, 1876 - January 9, 1971) was an American player in Major League Baseball from 1898 until 1910.
He was a right fielder known predominantly for his solid batting and speed.
www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Elmer_Flick   (457 words)

  
 Charles Comiskey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As owner of the White Sox from 1900 until his death in 1931, Comiskey oversaw the building of Comiskey Park in 1910 and five American League championships.
Comiskey reentered baseball in 1900 as the first owner of the Chicago White Sox and a partial founder of the American League.
However, Comiskey's unpopularity with his players is seen as a factor in the Black Sox scandal, in which players conspired to throw the 1919 World Series.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Comiskey   (307 words)

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