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Download or read book The New York Giants Base Ball Club written by James D. Hardy, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the earliest days of professional baseball, onlookers regarded the game with some ambivalence. To capture the hearts of the public, baseball needed teams worth watching-and no team was a better ambassador for baseball in the 19th century than the New York Giants. Sporadically very good and at times even fashionable, the Giants of the 1800s were not yet the perennial power they would become in the early 20th century. They were, however, one of the league's best-known and most closely watched teams, playing as they did in the country's premier city. New York and its Giants epitomized the rise of industrialized America and the need for organized spectator diversions. Together, the city and the team helped propel baseball into its position as the national pastime. This entry refers to the LARGE PRINT edition. For the standard edition please see ISBN 978-0-7864-2728-4.

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Download or read book Bush League Big City written by Michael Sokolow and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-04-01 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bush League, Big City tells the interwoven stories of two low-level minor league baseball teams brought to New York City in the late 1990s. It also illuminates the history of the New York-Penn League, America’s oldest and longest-running minor league, from its inception in 1939 until its abrupt contraction by Major League Baseball in 2020. With an eye for details and firsthand accounts by many of the baseball people involved, Michael Sokolow tells the story of two franchises that went in very different directions, as the Cyclones achieved astronomical success while Staten Island’s ‘Baby Bombers’ sank under the weight of debt and recriminations. Along the way, the book visits small communities in upstate New York, New England, and Canada, introduces the multimillionaires who came to dominate small-time baseball ownership, and tells the tale of two of the most expensive minor-league baseball stadiums ever built. It also sheds light on the complex, behind-the-scenes influence of New York City politics, as the indomitable will of Mayor Rudy Giuliani reshaped the geography of both the city and professional baseball. Bush League, Big City is a compelling examination of both the power and limits of nostalgia in a sport that is increasingly focused on the bottom line.

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Download or read book The Giants of the Polo Grounds written by Noel Hynd and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the Giants baseball team and looks at their greatest players and games from their founding to the move to San Francisco in 1957

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