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  • The Federal League of Base Ball Clubs
    Robert Peyton Wiggins
    The last independent major league ended its brief run in 1915, after only two seasons at the national pastime’s top level. But no competitor to establishment baseball ever exerted so much influence on its rival, with some of the most recognizable elements of the game today--including the commissioner system, competition for free agents, baseball’s antitrust exemption, and ev...
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  • The Deacon and the Schoolmaster
    Robert Peyton Wiggins
    Among the great pitchers in baseball history, Charles 'Deacon' Phillippe and Samuel 'The Schoolmaster' Leever are hardly household names. But during the first decade of the twentieth century, these two Pittsburgh Pirates were among the most celebrated pitchers in the majors. From 1900 through 1906, they posted a combined record of 261 victories against 131 losses for a win-l...
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  • Jungle Combat with the 112th Cavalry
    Robert Peyton Wiggins
    This narrative tracks the experiences of three veterans while providing a comprehensive account of Troop G activities during the war years. The text follows the regiment from its time as mounted cavalry based in Fort Clark to New Caldonia, where the men gave up their horses to become infantymen in General Douglas MacArthur’s conquest of New Guinea and the Philippines. Never ...
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  • Chief Bender
    Robert Peyton Wiggins
    Hall of Famer Charles Albert Bender has been the subject of renewed interest in recent years, as researchers have usefully described his experiences as an American Indian who dominated a game played mostly by whites. Lost in much of the discussion, however, has been Bender’s steady excellence on the mound, where, year in and year out, he was one of the great pitchers in an a...
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    42,67 €