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19th Century Baseball in Chicago (IL) (Images of Baseball) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Mark Rucker, John K. Freyer
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Category: Book
Buy New: $19.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1107970
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 0.3
ISBN: 0738531812
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.357097731109034
EAN: 9780738531816
ASIN: 0738531812
Publication Date: November 29, 2003
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Book Description
The Chicago area today hosts two of the most historic major league franchises and half a dozen minor or independent league teams. Baseballis roots run deep in the Windy City. Indeed, it was Chicago businessman William iIid rather be a lamp-post in Chicago than a millionaire in any other cityi Hulbert, who, according to baseball lore, staged the coup that in 1876 would put the National League on the map. The Chicago White Stockings (now ironically called the Cubs) were one of eight charter members, winning the inaugural NL Championship with such legendary names as A.G. Spalding, iCapi Anson, and Roscoe Barnes. YYBut The National Pastime arrived in Chicago well before the 1876 season, as is proven in this fascinating new book, 19th Century Baseball in Chicago, illustrated with over 150 vintage imagesYYAny local fan of the modern gameowhether the action takes place at the iFriendly Confines,i 35th & Shields, or the cozy setting of a minor league ballpark out in Kane or suburban Cook Countyowill enjoy the wealth of information offered in 19th Century Baseball in Chicago. .
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 Chicago White Stockings March 22, 2005
I recommend this book to any baseball fan that already has some knowledge of baseball in its infancy. The text will give the reader a slight comprehension how the game was played differently. The Great Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Baseballgives a year by year explanation of rule changes in baseball in the nineteenth century. The book titled 19th Century Baseball in Chicago has an imformative text about the nineteenth century chicago baseball scene, but this can be obtain through other books about the Chicago Cubs. What makes this work worth obtaining are the pictures. Showing ballplayers of an era long gone. But also showing the crude boxscores of yesteryear. And a little about the ballfields the games were played on before Wrigley field or the original Comiskey Park were built or played on.
 Pictures are Great! May 24, 2004
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Mark Rucker comes through with a great selection of Chicago baseball pictures, and the printing quality is excellent. John Freyer's text helps carry the pictures along. Book has some minor typos of proper names and one clear mislabeling (a picture purportedly of the 1888-89 world tour is really an in-season 1888 pose of Chicago players with some noted actors including De Wolf Hopper, the original reciter of the poem "Casey at the Bat"). 19th Century Baseball in Chicago gets off to a nice start in describing baseball in Chicago prior to its first professional league team of the 1870s. For more on the personalities of the officials and players of the city's National League club up to 1900, especially well-known figures Albert Spalding, William Hulbert and Cap Anson, I would humbly recommend my 2003 book Cap Anson 1: When Captaining Meant Something: Leadership in Baseball's Early Years.
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