Deadball Stars of the National League

by SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN BASEBALL RESEARCH

• ISBN13: 9781574888607
• ISBN10: 1574888609
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: Potomac Books Inc

Summary

This new volume is the first book establishing a relationship between Brassey's, Inc. and the premier research organization in all of sports, the Society for American Baseball Research. This initial release allows you to return to one of the most colorful, popular, important, and distinct periods of baseball history. With the Society for American Baseball Research to guide you, you'll learn about the stars, the regulars, and the people behind the scenes-who were all the leading lights of the senior circuit. Through them, follow the great game's opening decades as the original eight National League franchises combated the American League, only to strike up a partnership with it and start the World Series in 1903, launching the major leagues as we know them today. Lavishly illustrated, featuring photographs and autographs of every player or person profiled, Deadball Stars of the National League gives fans a unique window into the game of "inside baseball," a time when the stolen base and the sacrifice were a manager's key weapons, when pitchers finished what they started, and when the baseball itself was a sodden, misshapen, tobacco-stained menace. Edited by Tom Simon and written and assembled by his fellow members of SABR's Deadball Era Committee, the unique resource Deadball Stars of the National League reflects a defining era of baseball history.

Table of Contents

The National League	15	(14)
Hank O'Day
Bob Emslie
Harry Pulliam
Bill Klem
Cy Rigler
John Tener
New York Giants	29	(58)
Christy Mathewson
Dummy Taylor
John McGraw
Joe McGinnity
Dan McGann
Red Ames
John Brush
Art Devlin
Hooks Wiltse
Mike Donlin
Larry Doyle
Fred Merkle
Rube Marquard
Fred Snodgrass
Doc Crandall
Buck Herzog
Chief Meyers
Red Murray
Art Fletcher
George Burns
Jeff Tesreau
Jim Thorpe
Bennie Kauff
Chicago Cubs	87	(54)
Frank Chance
Jack Taylor
Johnny Kling
Joe Tinker
Johnny Evers
Mordecai Brown
Frank Schulte
Artie Hofman
Ed Reulbach
Charles Murphy
Jimmy Sheckard
Orval Overall
Jack Pfiester
Harry Steinfeldt
Heinie Zimmerman
Jimmy Archer
Vic Saier
Larry Cheney
Cy Williams
Jim Vaughn
Claude Hendrix
Pittsburgh Pirates	141	(42)
Sam Leever
Ginger Beaumont
Barney Dreyfuss
Fred Clarke
Honus Wagner
Tommie Leach
Deacon Phillippe
Claude Ritchey
Howie Camnitz
George Gibson
Lefty Leifield
Owen Wilson
Babe Adams
Dots Miller
Bobby Byrne
Max Carey
Wilbur Cooper
Philadelphia Phillies	183	(44)
Roy Thomas
Red Dooin
John Titus
Sherry Magee
Mickey Doolan
Kitty Bransfield
Eddie Grant
George McQuillan
Fred Luderus
Pat Moran
Pete Alexander
Dode Paskert
Bill Killefer
Eppa Rixey
Erskine Mayer
Gavy Cravath
Dave Bancroft
Cincinnati Reds	227	(40)
Jake Beckley
Noodles Hahn
Garry Herrmann
Bob Ewing
Cy Seymour
Larry McLean
Hans Lobert
Mike Mitchell
Dick Hoblitzell
Bob Bescher
Rube Benton
Armando Marsans
Heine Groh
Ivy Wingo
Fred Toney
Edd Roush
Brooklyn Superbas	267	(38)
Charles Ebbets
Ned Hanlon
Bill Dahlen
Bill Bergen
Harry Lumley
John Hummel
Nap Rucker
Zack Wheat
Hy Myers
Jake Daubert
Casey Stengel
Jeff Pfeffer
Wilbert Robinson
Ivy Olson
Boston Braves	305	(26)
Fred Tenney
Vic Willis
Bill Sweeney
Lefty Tyler
Hank Gowdy
Rabbit Maranville
George Stallings
Bill James
Dick Rudolph
Joey Connolly
St. Louis Cardinals	331	(35)
Patsy Donovan
Homer Smoot
Ed Konetchy
Bugs Raymond
Slim Sallee
Roger Bresnahan
Steve Evans
Mike Mowrey
Miller Huggins
Bill Doak
Helene Robison Britton
Rogers Hornsby
Credits	366