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Level playing fields : how the groundskeeping Murphy brothers shaped baseball

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Level playing fields : how the groundskeeping Murphy brothers shaped baseball / Peter Morris.

Author

Morris, Peter, 1962-

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2007.

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xxi, 184 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-178) and index.

Contents

Introduction: the dirt beneath the fingernails -- Invisible men -- The pursuit of pleasures under difficulties -- Inside baseball -- Who'll stop the rain? -- A diamond situated in a river bottom -- Tom Murphy's crime -- Return to exposition park -- No suitable ground on the island -- John Murphy of the polo grounds -- Marlin Springs -- The later years -- The Murphys' legacy -- Epilogue -- Afterword: cold cases -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.

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