Peter Morris

Cracking Baseball's Cold Cases

Filling in the Facts About 17 Mystery Major Leaguers

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is the result of one man's twenty-year quest to solve some of baseball's most enduring mysteries--the "cold cases" of major leaguers about whom virtually nothing is known. (In many instances, the various baseball encyclopedias list only their names and one other word: "deceased.") Some of these mysterious players had negligible professional careers and their time on a major league diamond was more the result of good fortune than anything else; others were stars in their day and then vanished. The Biographical Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research is committed to finding them and award-winning researcher Peter Morris tells the story of some of the most remarkable of the searches that resulted, many of which featured twists so surprising no mystery writer could have invented them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9780786475452
• ISBN-10: 0786475455
• Artikelnr.: 36908266

Autorenporträt

Baseball historian Peter Morris is a two-time winner of the Seymour Medal for best baseball book of the year and was an inaugural winner of the Henry Chadwick Award for lifetime achievement in baseball research. He lives in Haslett, Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Introduction
1-Walter Walker
2-Seymour Studley
3-Tom Carey
4-Eddie Kolb
5-Louis Phelan
6-Abbie Johnson
7-Bert Miller
8-Arthur Sunday
9-Wally Goldsmith 10-Al Nichols 11-Patrick Murphy 12-Harvey Watkins 13-"I've Been Right Here This Whole Time" 14-The Shafer Brothers 15-Peter Morris 16-George Bristow 17-Early Bloodhound Techniques 18-Ed Clark 19-Joe Gannon Afterword Chapter Notes Index