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19th Century Baseball in Chicago (IL) (Images of Baseball) - Softcover

Rucker, Mark; Freyer, John

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9780738531816: 19th Century Baseball in Chicago (IL) (Images of Baseball)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0738531812 ISBN 13: 9780738531816
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

The Chicago area today hosts two of the most historic major league franchises and half a dozen minor or independent league teams. Baseball's roots run deep in the Windy City. Indeed, it was Chicago businessman William I'd rather be a lamp-post in

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About the Author

By virtue of exhaustive research into ancient box scores and newspaper accounts dating to the early 1850s, authors Mark Rucker and John Freyer tell the story of baseball's 19th-century migration to the Midwest, its development in Chicago as an amateur sport and the city's central role in the dawn of professionalism. Both Mark and John are longstanding members of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).

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Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0738531812
ISBN 13 
9780738531816
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
128
Rating
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