More than Merkle : a history of the best and most exciting baseball season in human history / David W. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, David W. (David Wallace), 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baseball--United States--History--20th century.

Baseball.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 271 pages) : 17 illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The arrival of a new baseball season serves to rekindle an old question: Which was the most exciting season ever played? In a book called More Than Merkle, David W. Anderson comes up with an answer that will startle many fans: the season of 1908. Just to make things perfectly clear, he subtitles his opus 'A History of the Best and Most Exciting Baseball Season in Human History.' Of course, the centerpiece is Fred 'Bonehead' Merkle, whose 'boner' of not running from first to second base while the winning run was scoring cost the New York Giants a pennant. Both leagues had close races that year, and the author covers them in exuberant detail. He also focuses on such star players as Christy Mathewson, Three-Finger Brown and Johnny Evers, not to mention more obscure figures, such as a pitcher with the fascinating name of Orval Overall, who won two games for the Chicago Cubs in the World Series (their last World Championship). Baseball antiquarians will relish the book."--Parade

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Illustrations

Tables

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

More than Merkle

Baseball Turned Upside Down

The Game in 1908

The Teams of 1908

The Men in Blue

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

Scandals of 908

Appendixes

Notes

Bibliographic Essay

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-253) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-42360-9

9786610423606

0-8032-0327-6

OCLC:

50024882