Base Ball Founders: The Clubs, Players and Cities of the Northeast That Established the Game - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786474300 ISBN 13: 9780786474301

Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2013

Synopsis

This book completes the series of histories of the clubs and players responsible for making baseball the national pastime that began with Base Ball Pioneers, 1850-1870 (McFarland 2011). Forty clubs and hundreds of pioneer players from the first hotbeds of New York City, Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts are profiled by leading experts on baseball's early years. The subjects include legendary clubs such as the Knickerbockers of New York, the Eckfords and Atlantics of Brooklyn, the Athletics of Philadelphia, and Harvard's first baseball clubs, and fabled players like Jim Creighton, Dickey Pearce, and Daniel Adams, but space is also given to less well remembered clubs such as the Champion Club of Jersey City and the Cummaquids of Barnstable, Massachusetts. What united all of these founders of the game was that their love of baseball during its earliest years helped to make it the national pastime.

About this title

About the Author:

Baseball historian Peter Morris is a two-time winner of the Seymour Medal for best baseball book of the year and was an inaugural winner of the Henry Chadwick Award for lifetime achievement in baseball research. He lives in Haslett, Michigan.

William J. Ryczek is a finance professional in Wallingford, Connecticut, who writes about early baseball, football, the Yankees, and the Mets.

Jan Finkel, a retired English professor, serves as chief editor of the SABR Biography Project. He lives in Swanton, Maryland.

Leonard Levin, a retired newspaper editor, is a SABR member and twice a national officer of the society. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Richard Malatzky has worked with Bill Haber through SABR's Biographical Committee researching missing players. He lives in the Bronx, New York.

Review:

"A comprehensive reference source on the genesis of baseball." --Library Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0786474300
• ISBN 13: 9780786474301
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340
• Editor: Morris Peter, Ryczek William J., Finkel Jan