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The Blue Ridge League - Couverture souple

Savitt, Robert P

 
9780738582399: The Blue Ridge League
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0738582395 ISBN 13 : 9780738582399
Editeur : Arcadia Publishing (SC), 2011

Synopsis

Between 1915 and 1930, nine towns in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia hosted teams in one of the most successful Class D minor leagues in professional baseball. The Blue Ridge League launched the careers of legendary Hall of Famers Lefty Grove and Hack Wilson and served as a training ground or final stop for over 100 major-league players. This feisty league challenged laws prohibiting Sabbath baseball games (resulting in mass arrests of players and management), pioneered night baseball, served as a laboratory for the establishment of baseball's farm system, and helped develop a postseason five-state championship series.

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À propos de l'auteur

Author Robert P. Savitt lectures and writes on a variety of historical subjects and is a past president of the Baltimore-Washington Chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research. Bob holds a doctoral degree from Georgetown University, has served in the Departments of Defense and State, and was legislative director for a US senator.

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Éditeur
Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0738582395
ISBN 13 
9780738582399
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
128
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Personne responsable
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