Name: a game of brawl,the orioles, the beaneaters, and the battle for the 1897 pennant
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Author: Felber, Bill ; Kennedy, Edward M.
ISBN: 9780803211360

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a game of brawl,the orioles, the beaneaters, and the battle for the 1897 pennant

Type

Physical Book

Author

Bill Felber

Preface by

Edward M. Kennedy

Publisher

University of Nebraska Press

Language

English

Pages

295

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.1 x 14.8 x 2.7 cm

Weight

0.53 kg.

ISBN

0803211368

ISBN13

9780803211360

Synopsis "a game of brawl,the orioles, the beaneaters, and the battle for the 1897 pennant"

Not only was it probably the most cutthroat pennant race in baseball history; it was also a struggle to define how baseball would be played. This book re-creates the rowdy, season-long 1897 battle between the Baltimore Orioles and the Boston Beaneaters. The Orioles had acquired a reputation as the dirtiest team in baseball. Future Hall of Famers John McGraw, Wee Willie Keeler, and "Foxy" Ned Hanlon were proven winners--but their nasty tactics met with widespread disapproval among fans. So it was that their pennant race with the comparatively saintly Beaneaters took on a decidedly moralistic air. Bill Felber brings to life the most intensely watched team sporting event in the country's history to that time. His book captures the drama of the final week, as the race came down to a three-game series. And finally, it conveys the madness of the third and decisive game, when thirty thousand fans literally knocked down the gates and walls of a facility designed to hold ten thousand to watch the Beaneaters grind out a win and bring down baseball's first and most notorious evil empire.Bill Felber recently retired as the executive editor of the Manhattan Mercury. He is the author of The Book on the Book: An Inquiry into Which Strategies in the Modern Game Actually Work Bill Felber recently retired as the executive editor of the Manhattan Mercury. He is the author of The Book on the Book: An Inquiry into Which Strategies in the Modern Game Actually Work

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