Mound City Memories features twenty-seven essays and interviews about baseball in St. Louis, focusing on the St. Louis Cardinals and the St. Louis Browns, as well as on Major League players raised in St. Louis.Rick Salamon profiles writer Bob Broeg, Joe Scott asks if Dizzy Dean s thirty-win season is legitimate, Jim Rygelski recalls Mark McGwire's seventy-home-run season, while Fred Heger compares Hall of Famers Rogers Hornsby and George Sisler. Peter Morris writes on little-known nineteenth-century baseball figure Asa Smith, while John Stahl provides an extensive profile of journeyman...
Mound City Memories features twenty-seven essays and interviews about baseball in St. Louis, focusing on the St. Louis Cardinals and the St. Lo...
Frederick Ivor-Campbell Robert L. Tiemann Mark Rucker
From the Introduction:
Renewed interest in nineteenth century baseball just a trickle when SABR's pioneering Nineteenth Century Stars was published has become a steady stream. Every year since 1989 has seen the publication of one or more new books devoted entirely to the nineteenth century game, and books that treat the whole history of baseball are less likely than they were to undervalue the nineteenth century. It is even possible to witness authentic early baseball, as played by dozens of vintage ball clubs, many of them representing historic villages and museums.
Most of...
From the Introduction:
Renewed interest in nineteenth century baseball just a trickle when SABR's pioneering Nineteenth Century Stars was pu...
