Ronald T Waldo

Days of Reckoning (eBook, ePUB)

Players Punching Their Ticket Out of Pittsburgh during the Barney Dreyfuss Era

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Since the dawn of baseball disputes between players and management have always existed.

A glorious period of diamond success and pennant glory occurred when Barney Dreyfuss owned the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1900 through 1932. During that time, the Pirates claimed six National League flags, appeared in four World Series, and won championship titles twice-in 1909 and 1925. After gaining full control of Pittsburgh's baseball organization in 1901, Dreyfuss acted as the supreme authority regarding all the club's affairs.

Many talented players pulled on a Pirates uniform throughout the Barney Dreyfuss ownership period. Some of these all-star diamond performers fell out of favor with management through two baseball eras and soon found themselves packing their bags and moving on to another city. The list of stalwart players shown the door when Dreyfuss ruled his diamond empire included Rube Waddell, Jesse Tannehill, Jack Chesbro, Vic Willis, Al Mamaux, Rabbit Maranville, Babe Adams, Max Carey, Kiki Cuyler, Glenn Wright, and Dick Bartell.

An ugly group of gamblers, stationing themselves at Exposition Park and Forbes Field, subjected certain players to their vile comments and disgusting verbal abuse. The actions of these unsavory individuals had a hand in the organization ridding itself of Kitty Bransfield, Claude Ritchey, and Bill Abstein because the constant taunting and heckling affected their performance.

From Waddell to Bartell, Ronald T. Waldo shares why many of the greatest players in Pittsburgh Pirates history were traded or released during Barney Dreyfuss's tenure owning the team.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sunbury Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798888191040
• Artikelnr.: 69113054

Autorenporträt

Ronald T. Waldo is a historian and author who has written eight books on the subject of baseball history, with many devoted to examining the Deadball Era and the 1920s. A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania his entire life, he graduated from Point Park University in the spring of 1983 with a Bachelor's Degree in journalism and communications. Following his love and passion for baseball history, Mr. Waldo's first book, titled Fred Clarke: A Biography of the Baseball Hall of Fame Player-Manager, was released in December 2010.Some of his other books include a biography about Hazen "Kiki" Cuyler, a compilation of stories connected to the life and career of Honus Wagner, and team-related works on the 1902 Pittsburgh Pirates, 1925 Pittsburgh Pirates, and 1938 Pittsburgh Pirates. Mr. Waldo's most recent book, published in April 2017, is titled Baseball's Roaring Twenties: A Decade of Legends, Characters, and Diamond Adventures.He also participated as a contributing author on the 2018 release, Unlucky 21: The Saddest Stories and Games in Pittsburgh Sports History, writing the chapter about the 1974-75 Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team titled "History Gone Bad: Chico and His Men Ruin the Pittsburgh Penguins' 1975 Playoff Party."A longtime member of the Society for American Baseball Research, each of his four books covering baseball's Deadball Era received nominations for the Larry Ritter Book Award by that organization's Deadball Era Committee. Besides being an avid baseball historian, Mr. Waldo also loves following current baseball, football, hockey, and soccer.