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Level Playing Fields : How the Groundskeeping Murphy Brothers Shaped Baseball / Peter Morris.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morris, Peter, 1962- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball fields--History.
- Baseball fields.
- Baseball--History.
- Baseball.
- Baseball fields--United States--Maintenance and repair.
- Baseball fields--Design and construction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, [2007]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Most baseball fans want to hear about stellar players and spectacular plays, statistics and storied franchises. Level Playing Fields sheds light on a usually unnoticed facet of the game, introducing fans and historians alike to the real fundamentals of baseball: dirt and grass.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction: The Dirt beneath the Fingernails; 1. Invisible Men; 2. The Pursuit of Pleasures under Difficulties; 3. Inside Baseball; 4. Who'll Stop the Rain?; 5. A Diamond Situated in a River Bottom; 6. Tom Murphy's Crime; 7. Return to Exposition Park; 8. No Suitable Ground on the Island; 9. John Murphy of the Polo Grounds; 10. Marlin Springs; 11. The Later Years; 12. The Murphys' Legacy; Epilogue; Afterword: Cold Cases; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610735099
- 9781496211095
- 149621109X
- 9781280735097
- 1280735090
- 9780803207363
- 0803207360
- OCLC:
- 476036119
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