Mcfarland: 2486 books
by Jerrold I. Casway
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Evolving in an urban landscape, professional baseball attracted a dedicated fan base among the inhabitants of major cities, including ethnic and racial minorities, for whom the game was a vehicle for assimilation. But to what extent were these groups welcomed within the world of baseball, and what...
Reflections on the New River
New Essays, Poems and Personal Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
From its headwaters in western North Carolina near the Tennessee line, the New River runs north 337 miles, cutting through the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and West Virginia on its way to the Ohio. No big cities inhabit its banks—just a few small towns along the way—and it carries no significant...
Ellison "Tarzan" Brown
The Narragansett Indian Who Twice Won the Boston Marathon
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Ellison “Tarzan” Brown was one of America’s premier marathon runners during the 1930s and 1940s. This volume tells the story of his life from the beginning of his budding career in the early 1930s through his untimely death in 1975. With his unorthodox approach to the sport and his spectacular...
by Patrick R. Redmond
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Jerrold Casway coined the phrase “The Emerald Age of Baseball” to describe the 1890s, when so many Irish names dominated teams’ rosters. But one can easily agree—and expand—that the period from the mid–1830s well into the first decade of the 20th century and assign the term to American...
Eyes on the Sporting Scene, 1870-1930
Will and June Rankin, New York's Sportswriting Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Helms Hall of Fame’s brothers William M. and Andrew B. “June” Rankin lived exciting lives covering sports for papers like the New York Sunday Mercury, New York Herald, New York World, Brooklyn Daily Eagle and New York Clipper from 1870 to 1930. Playing for amateur and semiprofessional Rockland...
Rowdy Patsy Tebeau and the Cleveland Spiders
Fighting to the Bottom of Baseball, 1887-1899
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
In an era of rowdy teams, the Cleveland Spiders (1887–1899) were baseball’s rowdiest. Managed by Oliver “Patsy” Tebeau, a quick-tempered infielder, the Spiders seemed to heap abuse of one kind or another on everyone—umpires, opposing teams, even the fans. Their aggression never brought home...
Napoleon Lajoie
King of Ballplayers
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Napoleon Lajoie was the sixth player, and the first second baseman, to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. During his career, which lasted from 1896 to 1916, he was regularly called the “King of Ballplayers” and was widely regarded as the greatest baseball player of all time before Ty Cobb...
Ed McKean
Slugging Shortstop of the Cleveland Spiders
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
The exemplar of the major league slugging shortstop before either Honus Wagner or Lou Boudreau, Ed McKean spent a dozen seasons as a high-profile contributor to the Cleveland Spiders, leading his team to three playoff berths and the 1895 Temple Cup championship. He played in no fewer than four of...
Johnny Evers
A Baseball Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
For more than a century Johnny Evers has been conjoined with Chicago Cubs teammates Frank Chance and Joe Tinker, thanks to eight lines of verse by a New York columnist. Caricatured as a scrawny, sour man who couldn’t hit and who owed his fame to that poem, in truth he was the heartbeat of one of...
Forfeits and Successfully Protested Games in Major League Baseball
A Complete Record, 1871-2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
This chronologically organized book is the first to provide comprehensive coverage of forfeits and successful protests of major league baseball games, educating the reader on the rules and prevailing styles of play at the time that each of the games was played. In addition to the date, location, and...
The 1902 Pittsburgh Pirates
Treachery and Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
After many years of being an also-ran in the National league, the Pittsburgh Pirates’ fortunes changed dramatically following the 1899 season after a monumental deal with the Louisville Colonels. The addition of star players such as Fred Clarke, Honus Wagner, Tommy Leach and Deacon Phillippe allowed...
Moments in the Sun
Baseball's Briefly Famous
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Baseball’s ranks are filled with those whose careers may not have been as spectacular as Ruth or Mays but who played essential roles in the game’s history, like footnotes in a great book. Some were well known in their day, featured on the front of the sports section; others were lesser lights...
Their Greatest Victory
24 Athletes Who Overcame Disease, Disability and Injury
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
This book profiles 24 athletes who overcame seemingly insurmountable medical odds to attain athletic success. Each profile describes the athlete’s problem, the medical issues he or she faced, how success was achieved despite the setback, and the personal qualities that helped the athlete to prevail....
Prizefighting
An American History
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
This work brings a fresh perspective to the history of modern prizefighting, a sport which has evolved over several centuries to become one of mankind’s most lasting and valued sporting attractions. With his primary focus outside the ropes, the author shows how organizers, publicity agents, and...