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League That Failed 10
David Quentin Voigt
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Description for League That Failed 10
Hardback. Voigt explores the historical origins of baseball from stick-and-ball games, through the popular players, significant rules changes, and seedy business practices of the final years of the 19th century, years that were crucial to the formation of baseball as it is played today. Series: American Sports History Series. Num Pages: 354 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBT; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 147 x 29. Weight in Grams: 649.
The League That Failed cuts through the haze that surrounds 19th-century baseball history, and portrays a classic, colorful era when baseball was chaotic, struggled over by players, coaches, sportswriters, fans, and owners. It recounts the stormy atmosphere after the Inter-League Wars of 1890 and 1891, when the victorious National League made a bald-faced bid to monopolize major league baseball in the United States, succeeding for eight years with the self-styled "Big League," which dominated the game while simultaneously gaining infamous notoriety for such high-handed acts as unilaterally capping players' salaries, failing to protect umpires from physical abuse, and threatening city ... Read more
The League That Failed cuts through the haze that surrounds 19th-century baseball history, and portrays a classic, colorful era when baseball was chaotic, struggled over by players, coaches, sportswriters, fans, and owners. It recounts the stormy atmosphere after the Inter-League Wars of 1890 and 1891, when the victorious National League made a bald-faced bid to monopolize major league baseball in the United States, succeeding for eight years with the self-styled "Big League," which dominated the game while simultaneously gaining infamous notoriety for such high-handed acts as unilaterally capping players' salaries, failing to protect umpires from physical abuse, and threatening city ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
354
Condition
New
Series
American Sports History Series
Number of Pages
354
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810833098
SKU
V9780810833098
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About David Quentin Voigt
David Quentin Voigt is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Albright College, where he has taught courses on baseball as popular culture. He is a past president of NASSH and has published seven books on baseball, including an extensive 3 volume history titled American Baseball.
Reviews for League That Failed 10
...astonishingly insightful...
Vintage and Classic Baseball Collector
...a superb book...it belongs in every serious baseball library, fans and public, spotlighting this era...Voigt's 1890s history lesson, The League That Failed, I heartily recommend reading. You will come away with a better understanding of the decade's impact in baseball's panorama.
Grandstand Baseball Annual
...eye-opening...
USA Today Baseball ... Read more
Vintage and Classic Baseball Collector
...a superb book...it belongs in every serious baseball library, fans and public, spotlighting this era...Voigt's 1890s history lesson, The League That Failed, I heartily recommend reading. You will come away with a better understanding of the decade's impact in baseball's panorama.
Grandstand Baseball Annual
...eye-opening...
USA Today Baseball ... Read more