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  • Schnozz
    David L. Fleitz
    One of the most popular players in Cincinnati Reds history, Ernie 'Schnozz' Lombardi played 1931-1947 as an eight-time All-Star catcher. A big man with huge hands, a cannon for an arm and a namesake nose, he held two National League batting titles and a career average of .306. Yet he was so famously slow a runner that the infielders took to the outfield, where they could sti...
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    50,25 €

  • Eddie Cicotte
    David L Fleitz / David L. Fleitz
    Eddie Cicotte, who pitched in the American League 1905-1920, was one of the tragic figures of baseball. A family man and a fan favorite, he ascended to stardom with nothing more than a mediocre fastball, endless guile and a repertoire of trick pitches. He won 29 games in 1919 and led the Chicago White Sox to the pennant. Although he pitched poorly in the World Series that Oc...
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    50,29 €

  • Rowdy Patsy Tebeau and the Cleveland Spiders
    David L. Fleitz
    In an era of rowdy teams, the Cleveland Spiders (1887-1899) were baseball’s rowdiest. Managed by Oliver 'Patsy' Tebeau, a quick-tempered infielder, the Spiders seemed to heap abuse of one kind or another on everyone--umpires, opposing teams, even the fans. Their aggression never brought home the pennant, but Cleveland’s battles with the league’s top clubs, including an 1895 ...
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    42,86 €

  • Napoleon Lajoie
    David L. Fleitz
    Napoleon Lajoie was the sixth player, and the first second baseman, to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. During his career, which lasted from 1896 to 1916, he was regularly called the 'King of Ballplayers' and was widely regarded as the greatest baseball player of all time before Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth came along. Colorful, competitive, and often unpredictable, Lajoie ...
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    58,75 €

  • Silver Bats and Automobiles
    David L. Fleitz
    Almost from professional baseball’s birth more than 130 years ago, the batting championship has been one of the sport’s most highly coveted awards. Since 1949, the Louisville Slugger company has presented the man with the highest batting average at season’s end with the Silver Bat Award, a regulation-sized metal bat plated in sterling silver with the winner’s name and averag...
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    42,88 €

  • The Irish in Baseball
    David L. Fleitz
    Professional baseball took root in America in the 1860s during the same years that the sons of the first wave of Irish famine refugees began to reach adulthood, and the Irish quickly demonstrated a special affinity for baseball. This is a survey of the enormous contribution of the Irish to the American pastime and the ways in which Irish immigrants and baseball came of age t...
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    43,86 €

  • Shoeless
    David L. Fleitz
    'Shoeless' Joe Jackson was one of baseball’s greatest hitters and most colorful players. Born Joseph Jefferson Wofford Jackson on July 16, 1888, in Pickens County, South Carolina, Jackson went to work in a textile mill when he was around six years old, and got his start in baseball playing for the Brandon Mill team at the age of 13 earning $2.50 a game. He emerged as the sta...
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    88,52 €

  • More Ghosts in the Gallery
    David L. Fleitz
    An irony of enshrinement at the baseball Hall of Fame is that it’s no guarantee of lasting name recognition. The sport’s history stretches too far back, as today fans scratch their heads about athletes and owners who were among the most celebrated public figures of their time. Who was more renowned than George Wright, baseball’s greatest star during the transition from amate...
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    42,71 €

  • Cap Anson
    David L. Fleitz
    Cap Anson’s plaque at the Baseball Hall of Fame sums up his career with admirable simplicity: 'The greatest hitter and greatest National League player-manager of the 19th century.' Anson helped make baseball the national pastime. He hit over .300 in all but three of his major league seasons, and upon his retirement in 1897, he held the all-time records for games played, time...
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    49,75 €

  • Ghosts in the Gallery at Cooperstown
    David L. Fleitz
    An irony of enshrinement at the baseball Hall of Fame is that it’s no guarantee of lasting name recognition. The sport’s history stretches too far back, as today fans scratch their heads about athletes and owners who were among the most celebrated public figures of their time. Who was more renowned than George Wright, baseball’s greatest star during the transition from amate...
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    42,72 €

  • Louis Sockalexis
    David L. Fleitz
    Louis Sockalexis, a Penobscot Indian from Maine, was one of the greatest college baseball stars of the 1890s. Following his days playing for Holy Cross and Notre Dame, he went directly into the major leagues with Cleveland’s National League team in 1897, becoming the first of his race to play in the majors and the first minority athlete to play in the National League. This...
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    42,85 €

  • Shoeless
    David L. Fleitz
    'Shoeless' Joe Jackson was one of baseball’s greatest hitters and most colorful players. Born Joseph Jefferson Wofford Jackson on July 16, 1888, in Pickens County, South Carolina, Jackson went to work in a textile mill when he was around six years old, and got his start in baseball playing for the Brandon Mill team at the age of 13 earning $2.50 a game. He emerged as the sta...
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    42,46 €