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catalog abstract "The author presents a fascinating array of provocative, unexpected, and illuminating materials that reveal the rich history of baseball in 105 articles. Included topics feature semipro teams, boys' baseball fiction, Japanese baseball, college ball, black baseball, the minor leagues, women's teams, and many other facets of the wonderful game of baseball.".
catalog alternative "Documentary history of baseball".
catalog alternative "Documentary history of baseball, 1900-1948".
catalog contributor b10699045.
catalog created "c1998.".
catalog date "1998".
catalog date "c1998.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
catalog description "1. A new century dawns: -- Buffalo dropped from American League (1901) -- Charles Comiskey plays prank on Ban Johnson (1902) -- National Commission formed (1903) -- Will Pittsburgh bow out of the World Series? (1903) -- New York Giants refuse to participate in World Series (1904) -- Chesbro's wild pitch ends Highlanders' quest for pennant (1904) -- "Semi-professional base ball" in the Northern Midwest (1905) -- Frank Merriwell's 'dope ball' (1905) -- Japanese College team wins in Los Angeles (1905) -- The scandal of college players and "summer ball" (1905) -- Philadelphia Giants win Black championship (1906) -- Sol White on "Colored Base Ball" (1907) -- Kid Johnson signs with Senators (1907) -- Agreement for Minor League Championship Series (1907) -- Detroit 9, Philadelphia 9, Seventeen Innings (1907).".
catalog description "2. Baseball and early-twentieth-century popular culture: -- Cubs protest precursor of "Merkle Blunder" (1908) -- Francis Richter on Fred Merkle (1908) -- Nashville wins pennant with 1-0 victory on season's last day (1908) -- Baseball writers form organization after World Series (1908) -- Reports on two Black women's teams (1908) -- League planned in rural Northern Virginia (1909) -- Descriptions of baseball recordings (1908, 1909) -- "Indoor baseball" and " Kicking baseball" (1910) -- Grantland Rice's "The slide of Paul Revere" (1910) -- A Japanese Prince on baseball (1910) -- The Hall of Fame (1911) -- College baseball's decline (1911) -- Mathewson editorial on Baker World Series home run (1911) -- Defending the cork-centered ball (1912) -- Charles Ebbets plans new Brooklyn ballpark.".
catalog description "3. Rumblings of unrest: -- Response to Congressional resolution on "Baseball Trust" (1912) -- David Fultz on the fraternity (1912) -- Jim Thorpe exposed as professional (1913) -- Federal league formed (1913) -- Damon Runyon reports Babe Ruth's first home run (1915) -- Eighty thousand watch amateur match (1915) -- Federal league signs peace treaty (1915) -- Final showdown for Matty and Brownie (1916) -- Antitrust suit dropped in Landis's court (1916) -- Toney-Vaughan double no-hitter (1917) -- Baseball ruled nonessential occupation (1918) -- Baltimore FL team wins lawsuit against Majors (1919) -- Hugh Fullerton alludes to World Series scandal (1919).".
catalog description "4. The age of Ruth: -- Yankees sign Babe Ruth (1920) -- "Freak deliveries" regulated (1920) -- On accusations of a fixed World Series (1920) -- Gehrig Homers in high school championship game (1920) -- On Ray Chapman (1920) -- Indians make baseball history in World Series (1920) -- "Wireless fans" enjoy historic game (1920) -- Landis is the "Supreme Ruler" (1920) -- Orioles win twenty-seventh straight International League game (1921) -- Ruth suspended, fined by Landis (1921) -- President Harding attends Army-Navy game (1922) -- "Casual comment" on baseball antitrust case (1922) -- Ban Johnson awards Cobb third .400 season (1922) -- Joe McGinnity, 52, throws shutout (1923) -- "Nondiscrimination" in baseball (1923) -- Negro National League is chartered (1924) -- National League celebrates "Golden Jubilee" (1926) -- Cobb, Speaker named in gambling scandal (1926) -- Ruth breaks own home run record (1927) -- Radio pioneer Graham McNamee critiqued (1927) -- No hitter in Negro World Series (1927) -- Margaret Gisolo, baseball star (1928) -- NL president suggests designated hitter (1929) -- Disaster in Yankee Stadium (1929).".
catalog description "5. Lights, action, history: -- Early Minor League night game (1930) -- James A. Michener on sandlot baseball (1930) -- Smokey Joe Williams fans twenty-seven players (1930) -- President Hoover booed (perhaps) at World Series game (1931) -- First Negro League all-star game (1933) -- Bill Terry insults Dodgers (1934) -- Dizzy predicts forty wins for Dean Brothers (1934) -- Monk walks out of Babe Ruth's past (1935) -- Baseball hall of fame planned (1935) -- Satchel Paige pitches Bismarck to Semipro title (1935) -- Profile of a young umpire (1935) -- Olympic baseball trials open in Baltimore (1936) -- Radio broadcaster contest (1936) -- The business of promoting baseball (1937) -- Dizzy Dean breaks toe in all-star game (1937) -- Gabby Hartnett's "homer in the gloaming" (1938) -- Lou Gehrig ends his streak (1939) -- Hall of Fame opens (1939) -- Landis declares ninety-one Tigers free agents (1940).".
catalog description "6. Baseball in wartime and peacetime: -- FDR gives green light to wartime baseball (1942) -- Baseball on film (1943) -- Race riots threaten baseball in Detroit (1943) -- Landis's last act (1943) -- Are Black players up to Major League snuff? (1944) -- Aluminum bats planned in Spokane (1944) -- Junior World Series game draws over fifty thousand (1944) -- "Nats" net only one home run all year (1945) -- Greenberg returns fro war, homer wins pennant (1945) -- Jackie Robinson signs with Dodgers (1945) -- Pacific Coast League requests Major League status (1945) -- Review of AAGPBL season (1946) -- First Major Leaguer lost to Mexican League (1946) -- American Baseball Guild formed (1946) -- Bus crash kills nine Spokane Minor Leaguers (1946) -- Proof that baseball predates Doubleday "invention" (1946) -- Connie Mack defends "nice guys" (1946) -- Jackie Robinson's Major League debut (1947) -- Babe Ruth dies (1948).".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-223) and index.".
catalog description "The author presents a fascinating array of provocative, unexpected, and illuminating materials that reveal the rich history of baseball in 105 articles. Included topics feature semipro teams, boys' baseball fiction, Japanese baseball, college ball, black baseball, the minor leagues, women's teams, and many other facets of the wonderful game of baseball.".
catalog extent "xvii, 238 p.:".
catalog hasFormat "Middle innings.".
catalog identifier "0803242581 (cloth : alk. paper)".
catalog isFormatOf "Middle innings.".
catalog issued "1998".
catalog issued "c1998.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,".
catalog relation "Middle innings.".
catalog spatial "United States".
catalog subject "796.352/0973 21".
catalog subject "Baseball United States History 20th century Sources.".
catalog subject "GV863.A1 M52 1998".
catalog tableOfContents "1. A new century dawns: -- Buffalo dropped from American League (1901) -- Charles Comiskey plays prank on Ban Johnson (1902) -- National Commission formed (1903) -- Will Pittsburgh bow out of the World Series? (1903) -- New York Giants refuse to participate in World Series (1904) -- Chesbro's wild pitch ends Highlanders' quest for pennant (1904) -- "Semi-professional base ball" in the Northern Midwest (1905) -- Frank Merriwell's 'dope ball' (1905) -- Japanese College team wins in Los Angeles (1905) -- The scandal of college players and "summer ball" (1905) -- Philadelphia Giants win Black championship (1906) -- Sol White on "Colored Base Ball" (1907) -- Kid Johnson signs with Senators (1907) -- Agreement for Minor League Championship Series (1907) -- Detroit 9, Philadelphia 9, Seventeen Innings (1907).".
catalog tableOfContents "2. Baseball and early-twentieth-century popular culture: -- Cubs protest precursor of "Merkle Blunder" (1908) -- Francis Richter on Fred Merkle (1908) -- Nashville wins pennant with 1-0 victory on season's last day (1908) -- Baseball writers form organization after World Series (1908) -- Reports on two Black women's teams (1908) -- League planned in rural Northern Virginia (1909) -- Descriptions of baseball recordings (1908, 1909) -- "Indoor baseball" and " Kicking baseball" (1910) -- Grantland Rice's "The slide of Paul Revere" (1910) -- A Japanese Prince on baseball (1910) -- The Hall of Fame (1911) -- College baseball's decline (1911) -- Mathewson editorial on Baker World Series home run (1911) -- Defending the cork-centered ball (1912) -- Charles Ebbets plans new Brooklyn ballpark.".
catalog tableOfContents "3. Rumblings of unrest: -- Response to Congressional resolution on "Baseball Trust" (1912) -- David Fultz on the fraternity (1912) -- Jim Thorpe exposed as professional (1913) -- Federal league formed (1913) -- Damon Runyon reports Babe Ruth's first home run (1915) -- Eighty thousand watch amateur match (1915) -- Federal league signs peace treaty (1915) -- Final showdown for Matty and Brownie (1916) -- Antitrust suit dropped in Landis's court (1916) -- Toney-Vaughan double no-hitter (1917) -- Baseball ruled nonessential occupation (1918) -- Baltimore FL team wins lawsuit against Majors (1919) -- Hugh Fullerton alludes to World Series scandal (1919).".
catalog tableOfContents "4. The age of Ruth: -- Yankees sign Babe Ruth (1920) -- "Freak deliveries" regulated (1920) -- On accusations of a fixed World Series (1920) -- Gehrig Homers in high school championship game (1920) -- On Ray Chapman (1920) -- Indians make baseball history in World Series (1920) -- "Wireless fans" enjoy historic game (1920) -- Landis is the "Supreme Ruler" (1920) -- Orioles win twenty-seventh straight International League game (1921) -- Ruth suspended, fined by Landis (1921) -- President Harding attends Army-Navy game (1922) -- "Casual comment" on baseball antitrust case (1922) -- Ban Johnson awards Cobb third .400 season (1922) -- Joe McGinnity, 52, throws shutout (1923) -- "Nondiscrimination" in baseball (1923) -- Negro National League is chartered (1924) -- National League celebrates "Golden Jubilee" (1926) -- Cobb, Speaker named in gambling scandal (1926) -- Ruth breaks own home run record (1927) -- Radio pioneer Graham McNamee critiqued (1927) -- No hitter in Negro World Series (1927) -- Margaret Gisolo, baseball star (1928) -- NL president suggests designated hitter (1929) -- Disaster in Yankee Stadium (1929).".
catalog tableOfContents "5. Lights, action, history: -- Early Minor League night game (1930) -- James A. Michener on sandlot baseball (1930) -- Smokey Joe Williams fans twenty-seven players (1930) -- President Hoover booed (perhaps) at World Series game (1931) -- First Negro League all-star game (1933) -- Bill Terry insults Dodgers (1934) -- Dizzy predicts forty wins for Dean Brothers (1934) -- Monk walks out of Babe Ruth's past (1935) -- Baseball hall of fame planned (1935) -- Satchel Paige pitches Bismarck to Semipro title (1935) -- Profile of a young umpire (1935) -- Olympic baseball trials open in Baltimore (1936) -- Radio broadcaster contest (1936) -- The business of promoting baseball (1937) -- Dizzy Dean breaks toe in all-star game (1937) -- Gabby Hartnett's "homer in the gloaming" (1938) -- Lou Gehrig ends his streak (1939) -- Hall of Fame opens (1939) -- Landis declares ninety-one Tigers free agents (1940).".
catalog tableOfContents "6. Baseball in wartime and peacetime: -- FDR gives green light to wartime baseball (1942) -- Baseball on film (1943) -- Race riots threaten baseball in Detroit (1943) -- Landis's last act (1943) -- Are Black players up to Major League snuff? (1944) -- Aluminum bats planned in Spokane (1944) -- Junior World Series game draws over fifty thousand (1944) -- "Nats" net only one home run all year (1945) -- Greenberg returns fro war, homer wins pennant (1945) -- Jackie Robinson signs with Dodgers (1945) -- Pacific Coast League requests Major League status (1945) -- Review of AAGPBL season (1946) -- First Major Leaguer lost to Mexican League (1946) -- American Baseball Guild formed (1946) -- Bus crash kills nine Spokane Minor Leaguers (1946) -- Proof that baseball predates Doubleday "invention" (1946) -- Connie Mack defends "nice guys" (1946) -- Jackie Robinson's Major League debut (1947) -- Babe Ruth dies (1948).".
catalog title "Documentary history of baseball".
catalog title "Documentary history of baseball, 1900-1948".
catalog title "Middle innings : a documentary history of baseball, 1900-1948 / compiled & edited by Dean A. Sullivan.".
catalog type "History. fast".
catalog type "Sources. fast".
catalog type "text".