The 1889 baseball season is unique in the history of baseball. This work presents accounts from the major newspapers of each of the four teams' cities - the New York Times, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the Boston Herald, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch - to capture the day-by-day excitement of the 1889 pennant race.
The 1889 baseball season is unique in the history of baseball. This work presents accounts from the major newspapers of each of the four teams' cities...
The authoritative compendium of facts, statistics, photographs, and analysis that defines baseball in its formative first decades.This comprehensive reference work covers the early years of major league baseball from the first game May 4, 1871, a 2-0 victory for the Fort Wayne Kekiongas over the visiting Cleveland Forest City team through the 1900 season. Baseball historian David Nemec presents complete team rosters and detailed player, manager, and umpire information, with a wealth of statistics to warm a fan s heart.Sidebars cover a variety of topics, from oddities the team that had the...
The authoritative compendium of facts, statistics, photographs, and analysis that defines baseball in its formative first decades.This comprehensive r...
In its infancy, major league baseball was anyone s game, open to a dizzying array of rogues and scamps, athletic giants and captains of industry, hustlers, managers, and umpires who transformed club-based teams into the first professional federations with formalized rules and commercial considerations. This two-volume work with its profiles of every key contributor to the major league game from May 4, 1871, through December 31, 1900 is truly inside baseball.
Volume 1 profiles all the key position players and pitchers of the nineteenth century, giving detailed information about each...
In its infancy, major league baseball was anyone s game, open to a dizzying array of rogues and scamps, athletic giants and captains of industry, h...
In its infancy, major league baseball was anyone s game, open to a dizzying array of rogues and scamps, athletic giants and captains of industry, hustlers, managers, and umpires who transformed club-based teams into the first professional federations with formalized rules and commercial considerations. This two-volume work with its profiles of every key contributor to the major league game from May 4, 1871, through December 31, 1900 is truly inside baseball. Volume 2 features Hall of Famers who played in the era, as well as twenty other figures who aren t yet enshrined but arguably should...
In its infancy, major league baseball was anyone s game, open to a dizzying array of rogues and scamps, athletic giants and captains of industry, hust...
The author of 38 baseball books and seven novels, including the internationally acclaimed The Systems of M.R. Shurnas, David Nemec adds to his reputation as a writer of erotic whodunits (Bright Lights Dark Rooms: Doubleday), (Mad Blood: The Dial Press) with a graphic tale set in today's Manhattan of a serial killer with a grotesquely comic flair that will both challenge and shock thinking readers. As in Stonesifer, Nemec's most famous serial killer novel, Who's Dicing the Daughters of Pan? is a total reexamination of the mystery and thriller genre. The book forces us to address uncomfortable...
The author of 38 baseball books and seven novels, including the internationally acclaimed The Systems of M.R. Shurnas, David Nemec adds to his reputat...
This chronologically organized book is the first to provide comprehensive coverage of forfeits and successful protests of major league baseball games, educating the reader on the rules and prevailing styles of play at the time that each of the games was played. In addition to the date, location, and source information, this work provides capsule biographies of many of the principal characters involved (including, for instance, the obscure one-game umpire who perpetrated the first forfeited game in major league history in 1871).
This chronologically organized book is the first to provide comprehensive coverage of forfeits and successful protests of major league baseball games,...
