Baseball in New Haven (CT) (Images of Baseball) [Paperback]

Sam Rubin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 21, 2003

Baseball in New Haven uncovers the rich history of the national pastime in the greater New Haven area with images that highlight the sport on many levels. Numerous professional, semiprofessional, and college teams have played here, starting with Yale teams of the Civil War era and early attempts to form an Elm City nine. In the early 1900s, George Weiss, later the general manager of the New York Yankees, helped establish New Haven as a baseball town by drawing stars such as Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb for exhibition games. The semiprofessional West Haven Sailors kept that tradition alive in the 1930s and 1940s. That same era was a heyday for Yale, as Yale Field saw legends such as Lou Gehrig and Ted Williams take on the Elis. Ruth returned in 1948 to present a copy of his biography to the Bulldog captain, future president George H.W. Bush. Baseball in New Haven details the return of professional baseball in 1972 with the Eastern League's West Haven Yankees and finishes with the New Haven Ravens, an Eastern League expansion team in 1994.

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About the Author

Sam Rubin, one of the first employees of the Ravens and a member of the Yale Athletic Department staff, tells the story of an area with a baseball history that features the best of all levels of play and parallels the development of the city itself.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (April 21, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0738511781
• ISBN-13: 978-0738511788
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,906,498 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Baseball in My Hometown, October 17, 2007

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Claire Zeman (New Haven, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Baseball in New Haven (CT) (Images of Baseball) (Paperback)

This book might only be interesting to the folks of my hometown, New Haven. For my part, I loved it. I remember so much of it and the rest I heard from my father. It was lots of fun.