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A Game of Brawl: The Orioles, the Beaneaters, and the Battle for the 1897 Pennant by Bill Felber (Hardcover, 2007)

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Not only was it probably the most cutthroat pennant race in baseball history; it was also a struggle to define how baseball would be played. This book re-creates the rowdy, season-long 1897 battle between the Baltimore Orioles and the Boston Beaneaters. The Orioles had acquired a reputation as the dirtiest team in baseball. Future Hall of Famers John McGraw, Wee Willie Keeler, and Foxy Ned Hanlon were proven winners-but their nasty tactics met with widespread disapproval among fans. So it was that their pennant race with the comparatively saintly Beaneaters took on a decidedly moralistic air. Bill Felber brings to life the most intensely watched team sporting event in the country's history to that time. His book captures the drama of the final week, as the race came down to a three-game series. And finally, it conveys the madness of the third and decisive game, when thirty thousand fans literally knocked down the gates and walls of a facility designed to hold ten thousand to watch the Beaneaters grind out a win and bring down baseball's first and most notorious evil empire.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-13
9780803211360
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95976029

Product Key Features

Author
Bill Felber
Publication Name
A Game of Brawl: the Orioles, the Beaneaters, and the Battle for the 1897 Pennant
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
320 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
216mm
Item Width
140mm
Item Weight
544g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Bill Felber
Genre
Sports
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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