Download or read book Cap Anson written by David L. Fleitz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-24 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cap Anson's plaque at the Baseball Hall of Fame sums up his career with admirable simplicity: "The greatest hitter and greatest National League player-manager of the 19th century." Anson helped make baseball the national pastime. He hit over .300 in all but three of his major league seasons, and upon his retirement in 1897, he held the all-time records for games played, times at bat, hits, runs scored, doubles and runs batted in. For much of his career, he also served as manager of the National League's Chicago White Stockings (now known as the Cubs), winning five pennants and finishing in the top half of the league in 15 of his 19 seasons. Anson's career coincided with baseball's rise to prominence. As the sport's first superstar, he was one of the best known and most widely admired men in the United States. He took advantage of his fame, starring in a Broadway play and touring on the vaudeville circuit. He toured England, Europe, Egypt, and Australia, introducing baseball throughout the world. Regrettably, he also vehemently opposed the presence of African Americans in the game and played a significant role in its segregation in the 1880s. From Marshalltown, Iowa, to superstar status, this work traces the life and times of Anson and the growth of the national pastime.
Download or read book A Ball Player s Career written by Adrian Constantine Anson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Ball Player's Career" (Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson) by Adrian Constantine Anson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Cap Anson 2 written by Howard W. Rosenberg and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive biography of the Hall of Fame player who was the most likely model, if any single player was, for the title character in Ernest Thayer's 1888 poem "Casey at the Bat." A year earlier, Mike Kelly became famous when Chicago sold him to Boston for a then-record price of $10,000, about $200,000 today. Until the final year of his life, 1894, he drew exceptionally colorful and informative coverage.
Download or read book Cap Anson 3 written by Howard W. Rosenberg and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive book on trickery and dirty play in baseball for the sport's major league years through 1900. Like the other books in the Cap Anson series, it reflects the author's having accounted for close to all surviving newspaper reporting on 19th-century baseball on the subjects it tackles. That methodology allows author Rosenberg to present and weigh in on tricky and dirty play in that era like no other author can. Some of the early chapters are titled, "Intimidating the Batter," "Spiking" and "Playing Dirty at the Bases." The featured team is the 1890s Baltimore Orioles, a team famed for bending the playing rules. As a comparison point, in a long chapter toward the end, the tricky and dirty play focus is Chicago during Cap Anson's captain-managing tenure. The book's featured players are Anson, John McGraw (of Baltimore) and Mike "King" Kelly (of mainly Chicago and Boston). The first appendix contains a chronology of episodes where the ball was allegedly manipulated. The one other appendix, stemming from an off-the-field venture by McGraw and teammate Wilbert Robinson, drew news coverage for refuting the notion that the sport of duckpin bowling originated in Baltimore.
Download or read book Collecting Sports Legends written by Joe Orlando and published by Zyrus Press. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide takes the reader on a historical journey, providing an in-depth look at the icons of sport, captured through their greatest collectibles. Composed by the leading experts in the field, never before has one book covered such a variety of hobby subjects. For those interested in building a fine collection of sports memorabilia, from baseball cards to autographs to game-used bats, each subject is covered in great detail. Within each chapter, the best of the best has been selected by the experts. Whether you are a hardcore collector or just an avid sports fan, this book not only helps bring the legends of sport to life but it provides crucial tips on how to assemble a world class collection. From Babe Ruth to Tiger Woods, from Wilt Chamberlain to Joe Namath, every major sport is covered. This book contains hundreds of sports memorabilia images, including many of the finest examples in the world.
Download or read book A Ball Player s Career written by Adrian Constantine Anson and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Ball Player s Career written by Adrian C. Anson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adrian C. Anson was Manager and Captain of the Chicago Base Ball Club, and was one of baseball's great hitters -- the first to tally over 3,000 career hits.
Download or read book Fleet Walker s Divided Heart written by David W. Zang and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moses Fleetwood Walker was the first black American to play baseball in a major league. He achieved college baseball stardom at Oberlin College in the 1880s. Teammates as well as opponents harassed him; Cap Anson, the Chicago White Stockings star, is blamed for driving Walker and the few other blacks in the major leagues out of the game, but he could not have done so alone. A gifted athlete, inventor, civil rights activist, author, and entrepreneur, Walker lived precariously along America’s racial fault lines. He died in 1924, thwarted in ambition and talent and frustrated by both the American dream and the national pastime.
Download or read book Cap Anson 1 written by Howard W. Rosenberg and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central subject of Cap Anson 1 is middlemen of baseball: captains, captain-managers and bench managers. Cap Anson was a longtime captain (Player)-manager of Chicago's National League team (which later became known as the Cubs), and this is the first book (with the exception of his ghostwritten autobiography in the year 1900), in which he is definitively and independently discussed.
Download or read book Baseball Ratings written by Charles F. Faber and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third edition of Baseball Ratings, author Charles Faber combines the second edition ("great fodder for arguments"--Booklist) with his book on 19th-century greats, Baseball Pioneers ("very impressive"--Reference and User Services Quarterly; "a notable and ... worthwhile addition"--ARBA), updating the ratings and expanding the commentary in each. The result, Baseball Ratings: The All-Time Best Players at Each Position, 1876 to the Present, is that rarest of rankings books--a time-tested, comprehensive reference work that invites reading. Batters, fielders and pitchers from all major leagues since 1876 are ranked by position and, for pitchers, according to role (e.g., starter, middle reliever, closer) according to career, peak, and per-season achievement. All big league players with at least five years of eligibility are rated, and appendices identify underrated and overrated players, rate multiposition players, and sort the great by handedness.
Download or read book Cap Anson Four written by Howard W. Rosenberg and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cap Anson was baseball's original superstar and, for well over a century, has remained the player who received the wittiest coverage, over a long playing and post career. On the heels of his landmark 2004 definitive biography of early baseball's biggest media sensation (and one other early superstar)--Hall of Famer Mike Kelly, whom legendary Boston Globe columnist (and J.G. Taylor Spink Award winner) Harold Kaese called "probably the most popular player in all of Boston baseball history"--Howard W. Rosenberg now focuses on the player called by H. H. Westlake of Baseball Magazine "probably the most independent character baseball ever knew." Rosenberg, who has demonstrated an unerring respect for the totality of baseball history, applies the same standard in his second full-length, definitive biography of a one-of-a-kind Hall of Famer. Also based on dozens of Cap's personal letters that have never been mentioned before, CAP ANSON 4: BIGGER THAN BABE RUTH: CAPTAIN ANSON OF CHICAGO traces Cap's life starting from childhood, when he grew up in a log cabin, through the one-of-a-kind gruff persona he took on as captain (player)-manager of the famous Chicago (National League) White Stockings (which later became the Colts) for a major league-record 19 straight years as an on-the-field leader with the same team. Then the book explores his fascinating post career that included his tenure as city clerk of Chicago, the city's number three post, 100 years ago (1905 to 1907); founding of a semi-pro team called Anson's Colts; his personal bankruptcy; and a long vaudeville career that is unmatched by any Hall of Fame player. Cap was the first big star in the game's history to age fully, healthily and colorfully in the public eye (to the reasonably ripe old age of three days before his 70th birthday). Except for aspects of him covered in the prior books in the series, the author explores the vast majority of all remaining aspects of the man and in relation to his key teammates, including one with great name recognition today: evangelist Billy Sunday. At a time when big-time publishers and mainstream media cherry-pick in "focus group"-like ways to appeal to names popularized by more modern technologies such as film and television, Cap Anson 4 brings back the glory days of print baseball journalism (even before Ring Lardner Sr.) and brilliantly illuminates its truly most legendary combination of hero and anti-hero: Cap is also the player most often blamed for bringing about the sport's color line that Jackie Robinson broke. For being the culprit, Cap was vilified in Ken Burns's 1994 PBS series on the sport. Accordingly, more than two dozen pages of Cap Anson 4 are devoted to claims and counterclaims about Anson's behavior and influence. Praise for Mike Kelly (Cap Anson 2): "Quirky and immensely readable, Mr. Rosenberg's book is a refreshing alternative to most that deal with Red Sox history and players. For one thing, there's not a single mention of the Yankees."-the New York Sun
Download or read book Cap Anson 2 written by Howard W. Rosenberg and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Exits written by Brian McKenna and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Each story contains an overview of the baseball figure, including career-ending details, and many entries contain background information describing the historical significance of the individual and his or her place within the baseball community."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Baseball in the Garden of Eden written by John Thorn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think you know how the game of baseball began? Think again. Forget Abner Doubleday and Cooperstown. Did baseball even have a father--or did it just evolve from other bat-and-ball games? John Thorn, baseball's preeminent historian, examines the creation story of the game and finds it all to be a gigantic lie. From its earliest days baseball was a vehicle for gambling, a proxy form of class warfare. Thorn traces the rise of the New York version of the game over other variations popular in Massachusetts and Philadelphia. He shows how the sport's increasing popularity in the early decades of the nineteenth century mirrored the migration of young men from farms and small towns to cities, especially New York. Full of heroes, scoundrels, and dupes, this book tells the story of nineteenth-century America, a land of opportunity and limitation, of glory and greed--all present in the wondrous alloy that is our nation and its pastime.--From publisher description.
Download or read book Theatre Symposium Vol 27 written by Sarah McCarroll and published by Theatre Symposium. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A substantive exploration of bodies and embodiment in theatre Theatre is inescapably about bodies. By definition, theatre requires the live bodies of performers in the same space and at the same time as the live bodies of an audience. And, yet, it's hard to talk about bodies. We talk about characters; we talk about actors; we talk about costume and movement. But we often approach these as identities or processes layered onto bodies, rather than as inescapably entwined with them. Bodies on the theatrical stage hold the power of transformation. Theatre practitioners, scholars, and educators must think about what bodies go where onstage and what stories which bodies to tell. The essays in Theatre Symposium, Volume 27 explore a broad range of issues related to embodiment. The volume begins with Rhonda Blair's keynote essay, in which she provides an overview of the current cognitive science underpinning our understanding of what it means to be "embodied" and to talk about "embodiment." She also provides a set of goals and cautions for theatre artists engaging with the available science on embodiment, while issuing a call for the absolute necessity for that engagement, given the primacy of the body to the theatrical act. The following three essays provide examinations of historical bodies in performance. Timothy Pyles works to shift the common textual focus of Racinian scholarship to a more embodied understanding through his examination of the performances of the young female students of the Saint-Cyr academy in two of Racine's Biblical plays. Shifting forward in time by three centuries, Travis Stern's exploration of the auratic celebrity of baseball player Mike Kelly uncovers the ways in which bodies may retain the ghosts of their former selves long after physical ability and wealth are gone. Laurence D. Smith's investigation of actress Manda Björling's performances in Miss Julie provides a model for how cognitive science, in this case theories of cognitive blending, can be integrated with archival theatrical research and scholarship. From scholarship grounded in analysis of historical bodies and embodiment, the volume shifts to pedagogical concerns. Kaja Amado Dunn's essay on the ways in which careless selection of working texts can inflict embodied harm on students of color issues an imperative call for careful and intentional classroom practice in theatre training programs. Cohen Ambrose's theorization of pedagogical cognitive ecologies, in which subjects usually taught disparately (acting, theatre history, costume design, for example) could be approached collaboratively and through embodiment, speaks to ways in which this call might be answered. Tessa Carr's essay on "The Integration of Tuskegee High School" brings together ideas of historical bodies and embodiment in the academic theatrical context through an examination of the process of creating a documentary theatre production. The final piece in the volume, Bridget Sundin's exchange with the ghost of Marlene Dietrich, is an imaginative exploration of how it is possible to open the archive, to create new spaces for performance scholarship, via an interaction with the body.
Download or read book A Ball Player s Career written by Adrian Anson and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A baseball biography classic by Adrian "Cap" Anson. Adrian C. Anson AKA "Cap Anson" was a great baseball player who was manager and captain of the Chicago Baseball Club, and was one of baseball's great hitters -- the first to tally over 3,000 career hits..This story of Anson's career is a fascinating piece of early baseball history.
Download or read book The Team By Team Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball written by Dennis Purdy and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 1185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball historian, Dennis Purdy, performs the feat of marrying statistics, scholarship, biography, trivia, and anecdote to create a massively pleasurable work.
