Addie Joss on Baseball Collected Newspaper Columns and World Series Reports, 1907-1909

Name: Addie Joss on Baseball Collected Newspaper Columns and World Series Reports, 1907-1909
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ISBN: 9780786463565

ISBN-10: 0786463562

ISBN-13: 9780786463565

Edition: 2012

Authors: Addie Joss, Gary Mitchem, Mark Durr, Mark Durr

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Addie Joss (1880-1911) mowed down batters for the Cleveland Broncos/Naps from 1902 to 1910 before his career was cut short by his tragic death from tubercular meningitis in 1911. With a career ERA of 1.89 and two no-hitters, Joss earned Hall of Fame election despite a career that lasted less than ten years, the only player to do so. In the off-season, Joss also excelled as a sportswriter for the Toledo News-Bee and the Cleveland Press, filling the empty winter months penning stories about the game he knew firsthand. This collection of Joss's newspaper columns and World Series reports is a treasury of the Dead-ball Era, intimate first-person observations of the game and its players from the…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 7/12/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 349
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.924



Acknowledgments


Preface


A Brief Biography



"I Have Not Had Better Friends": Players, Great Players and All the Rest



"The Sporting Editor": Baseball Humor



"The Boys Played Grandly": Greatest Games and Plays



Of Fanatics, Kranks and Bugs: The Fans



"Another Remarkable Instance": The Inside Game



Of Spiders and Colonels: The Nineteenth-Century Game



"Is the American League a Minor League?": World series Reports



"I Should Suggest": Views from Toledo


Appendix: Contributions by Joss to Other Newspaper and Periodicals


Chapter Notes


Bibliography


Index