Hardscrabble Diamonds: Postwar Baseball in New England and the Maritimes, 1945-1960 - Couverture souple

Howell, Colin

 
9781476690711: Hardscrabble Diamonds: Postwar Baseball in New England and the Maritimes, 1945-1960
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1476690715 ISBN 13 : 9781476690711
Editeur : McFarland & Co Inc, 2023

Synopsis

Part history, part memoir, part statistical analysis, this book tells the remarkable and largely forgotten story of how the baseball hotbed of Canada's northeastern Maritime provinces evolved into "NCAA North" during the 1940s and 1950s. A summer training ground for players from leading U.S. college programs, the region attracted talented players seeking higher salaries than they could get in the American minor league system.

Major league organizations came to scout blue-chip prospects. In this competitive environment, only the best were able to crack the rosters of town teams in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Maine. A Quality of Competition Index for various northeast leagues provides major league equivalencies for selected players.

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À propos de l'auteur

Colin Howell is a professor emeritus from Saint Mary's University in Halifax where he taught Canadian and sport history and the former editor of the Canadian Historical Review.

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Éditeur
McFarland & Co Inc
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1476690715
ISBN 13 
9781476690711
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
223
Coordonnées du fabricant
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