Research Catalog

Title

The Pittsburgh Pirates / by Frederick G. Lieb ; with a new foreword by Richard "Pete" Peterson.

Author

Lieb, Fred, 1888-

Publication

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2003.

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Details

Description

xviii, 312 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Series Statement

Writing baseball

Uniform Title

Writing baseball.

Subject

Pittsburgh Pirates (Baseball team)

Note

• Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1948.
• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Baseball seed is planted early -- Pittsburgh is admitted to old national -- Pittsburgh club is "piratical" -- Connie Mack is pirate skipper -- Barney Dreyfuss enters the scene -- The mighty Honus -- Fred the fearless -- New combination quickly clicks -- War and pennant come to Ptttsburgh -- Bucs win second flag by 27 1/2 games -- Pennant lightning strikes again -- Evil first-base jinx raises its head -- Barney goes high for 29-game loser -- New Castle and new pennant -- Babe Adams basks in national spotlight -- Corsairs enlist fleet-footed divinty student -- "Five for three" deal backfires -- Banjo Charley chases first-base hex -- Playful rabbit moves into Forbes Field -- In the pennant swim again -- Mutiny on the high seas -- Bush sails into pennant harbor -- Barney's span runs out -- Gibson back at the helm -- Arky Vaughan wears Honus' old crown -- Harnett's homer explodes pennant dream -- Fordham flash takes the tiller -- Fresh blood comes into the front office -- Everything happens to the pirates -- A future filled with hope.

ISBN

080932492X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002030602

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library