From the Introduction: When baseball evolved in the nineteenth century from a child's game to adult social recreation to professional sport, the very best players emerged into the public consciousness to become America's first sports heroes. More than three dozen of these long-ago starts have been enshrined in baseball's Hall of Fame, but scores of other outstanding pre-1900 players have fallen into obscurity. With this book, the Society for American Baseball Research, through the efforts of its committee on the 19th century, attempts to bring some forgotten stars back into the limelight. By going beyond the published statistics, SABR authors have tried to achieve greater insight into the careers and lives of these men and into the nature of baseball in their time. You'll find some real characters in these pages. There were "glory boys," fan favorites and boo-targets. There were alcohol abusers, rule-breakers and game-fixers, team jumpers and company men. And there were innovators. From the first real shortstop, Dickey Pearce, and the first professional player, Jim Creighton, to turn-of-the-century standouts like George Davis and Fred Tenney, 136 biographical sketches of players and managers are included here. No particular criterion was used in selecting the players included, except that Hall-of-Fame members are excluded, and despite special efforts to get sketches of certain men, many worthy players remain absent from these pages. Come meet the men who were there at the beginning, as baseball itself was taking shape. The Society for American Baseball Research is pleased to submit to you this work on "Nineteenth Century Stars."
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Valuable Reference For All Baseball Fanatics,
This review is from: Nineteenth Century Stars (Paperback)
The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) does a great job in profiling many good players from the 1800's (over 130 of them). Each page is devoted to a player, with a picture and a short biography of his life, as well as his statistics. This well-researched book pays tribute to the little known players of days long gone and gives us a picture of what baseball was like in the beginning.
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This book specialize itself of presenting short but complete bios of 19th century players who were not inducted to the Hall Of Fame.
Some players such as Pete Browning well deserves to be enriched, but as they played mostly in the American Association, they still get the cold treatment. What a shame. Many of the bios included are not available anywhere else. Do yourself a favor, read the stories and achievements of such forgotten baseball stars like Matt Kilroy, Louis Sockalexis, Toad Ramsey, Guy Hecker, Bobby Matthews, Davey Force, Levi Meyerle and so on. It's a great document who'll enriched any baseball fans library.
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