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Monumental baseball : the national pastime in the national capital region / edited by Bob Brown.
- Title
- Monumental baseball : the national pastime in the national capital region / edited by Bob Brown.
- Publication
- Cleveland, Ohio : Society for American Baseball Research, c2009.
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- Society for American Baseball Research
- Description
- 127 p. : ill.; 28 cm.
- Series Statement
- The national pastime
- Uniform Title
- The national pastime.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Note from the editor / Bob Brown -- Abraham Lincoln, ballplayer? / Richard Hershberger -- Washington in 1887 / Norman L. Macht -- Cupid Childs / Jimmy Keenan -- Country ball : big teams in small towns / Marty Payne -- Up to Washington : Bob Groom's early life in baseball / Catherine Groom Petroski -- Class D Blue Ridge League--1918, the lost season : Minor-league baseball in the midst of the war effort and the Spanish influenza / Mark C. Ziegler. -- All-time team of Bob Davids, chapter natives / D. Bruce Brown -- James Vincent Jamison Jr. : Blue Ridge League president, 1916-18, 1920-30 / Mark C. Ziegler -- Baseball braggin' rights : the five-state series, 1922-1927 / James P. Holl -- Leon Allen Goslin : the wild goose of the Potomac / Cort Vitty -- Walter "Peck" Lerian, 1928-29 Philadelphia Phillies / T. Scott Brandon -- Comebacks and fisticuffs : the Eastern Shore Baseball League, 1922-1949 / Barry Sparks -- Stories in Washington baseball history / Gary Sarnoff.
- Maryland--home of homer hitters / Don Nelson -- Buzz Arlett's remarkable 1932 season / Cort Vitty -- War at Griffith Stadium / Gary Sarnoff -- Sid Hudson / Steve Walker -- Mickey Grasso : the catcher was a POW / Cort Vitty -- Plenty of stars, but few victory cigars : the Washington Senators of the 1950s / Francis Kinlaw -- Oriole way : the founding fathers / Warren Corbett -- Washington nicknames / Norman L. Macht -- Damn Yankees : a Washington fan's fantasy / Rob Edelman -- Joe Hardy / Mark Pattison -- Babe birds versus Bronx Bombers : no mismatch after all! / Francis Kinlaw -- Washington homers / David Vincent -- Clark Griffith / Joel A. Rippel -- Ted Williams / Steve Walker -- Brief history of the Washington Stars / Maxwell Kates -- Ground-zero start to building a baseball team and ballpark / Bill Hickman.
- ISBN
- 9781933599144 (pbk.)
- 1933599146 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 432334449
- SCSB-12741847
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library