A clever base-ballist :
the life and times of John Montgomery Ward /
Bryan Di Salvatore.
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| Summary: | ""Baseball is not a Summer snap, but a business ... A player is not a sporting man. He is hired to do certain work and do it as well as he possibly can.""--BOOK JACKET. "John Montgomery Ward, nineteenth-century America's most-talked-about (both reviled and applauded) baseball player, spoke these words shortly after the failure of the great player rebellion of 1890, a revolution Ward almost single-handedly fomented. That year, four out of every five National Leaguers, taking great economic risk, deserted professional baseball's establishment to create an "outlaw" rival organization, the Players League. Team owners, the players felt, treated them like chattel."--Jacket. "A Clever Base-Ballist is also a keenly observant narrative of late nineteenth-century America. In it can be found the likes of Mark Twain, Hawaii's King Kalakuau, and Moses Fleetwood Walker, the major league's first black player."--BOOK JACKET. "Handsome, erudite, and brilliantly talented, Ward made front-page headlines across the country when he married New York actress Helen Dauvray. And when they weren't branding him a terrorist, owners trumpeted the college-educated Ward as the sport's premier role model. An unblinking antidote to "good-old-days" syndrome, A Clever Base-Ballist is an unconventional biography of an unconventional and, until now, obscure American."--Jacket. |
| In collection: | Stephen Griffin Collection |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
©1999.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-457) and index. Physical description: x, 477 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm more |
| ISBN: | 0679442340 9780679442349 |
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