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Charlie Bevis
Night games transformed the business of professional baseball, as the smaller, demographically narrower audiences gave way to larger, more diversified crowds. This comprehensive history of night baseball examines the factors…
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Though many of his contemporaries considered him second only to Babe Ruth in the 1920s and 1930s, Mickey Cochrane is often overlooked by fans and historians. This full story of…
This volume tells the story of how Sunday baseball went from being an illegal activity in most areas of the US in 1876 to a legal form of entertainment in…
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This first book-length biography of Jimmy Collins examines the life of an intensely private, business-oriented ballplayer who was the first third baseman to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of…
One of the greatest pitchers of the 19th century, Tim Keefe (1857-1933) was an ardent believer in the artisan work ethic that was becoming outmoded in burgeoning industrial America. A…
For 52 years, Boston was a two-team Major League city, home to both the Red Sox and the Braves. This comprehensive study focuses on the two team’s period of coexistence…
Delves into the thirty-nine seasons of operation as a minor league of the New England League, not only from the baseball aspects but also the region’s economic aspects, since they…
The history of Major League doubleheaders is presented in this volume, beginning with their inception as a way to make up missed games, to their current decline as a result…
