Ted Sullivan, barnacle of baseball : the life of the prolific league founder, scout, manager and unrivaled huckster / Pat O'Neill and Tom Coffman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Neill, Pat, 1953- author.

Coffman, Tom, author.

Contributor:

Maryann B. Sudo CW'63 and John B. Baxter, Jr., American History Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sullivan, T. P. (Timothy Paul).

Sullivan, T. P.

Baseball players--United States--Biography.

Baseball players.

Immigrants.

United States.

Ireland.

Immigrants--Ireland--Biography.

Baseball--United States--History--19th century.

Baseball.

History.

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

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2021]

Summary:

"In his day, perhaps no one in baseball was better known than Irish-born Timothy Paul "Ted" Sullivan. For 50 years, America's sportswriters sang his praises, genuflected to his genius and bought his blarney by the barrel. Damon Runyon dubbed him "The Celebrated Carpetbagger of Baseball." Cunning, fast-talking, witty and sober, Sullivan was the game's first player agent, a groundbreaking scout who pulled future Hall of Famers from the bushes, an author, a playwright and a baseball evangelist who promoted the game across five continents. He coined the term "fan" and was among the first to suggest the designated hitter--because pitchers were "a lot of whippoorwill swingers." But he was also a convert to the Jim Crow attitudes of his day--black ballplayers were unimaginable to him. Unearthing thousands of contemporaneous newspaper accounts, this first exhaustive biography of "Hustlin'" Ted Sullivan recounts the life and career of one of the greatest hucksters in the history of the game"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Maryann B. Sudo CW'63 and John B. Baxter, Jr., American History Fund.

ISBN:

9781476684789

1476684782

OCLC:

1198976127

Publisher Number:

99988778775