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...
