
Tales from the Deadball Era
Ty Cobb, Home Run Baker, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and the Wildest Times in Baseball History
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Michael Butler Murray
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Mark S. Halfon
The Deadball Era (1901-1920) is a baseball fan's dream. Hope and despair, innocence and cynicism, and levity and hostility blended then to create an air of excitement, anticipation, and concern for all who entered the confines of a major league ballpark. Cheating for the sake of victory earned respect, corrupt ballplayers fixed games with impunity, and violence plagued the sport.
At the same time, endearing practices infused baseball with lightheartedness, kindness, and laughter. Fans ran onto the field with baskets of flowers, loving cups, and cash for their favorite players in the middle of games. Ballplayers volunteered for "benefit contests" to aid fellow big leaguers and the country in times of need. "Joke games" reduced sport to pure theater as outfielders intentionally dropped fly balls, infielders happily booted easy grounders, hurlers tossed soft pitches over the middle of the plate, and umpires ignored the rules. Winning meant nothing, amusement meant everything, and league officials looked the other way.
Mark Halfon highlights the strategies, underhanded tactics, and bitter battles that defined this storied time in baseball history, while providing detailed insights into the players and teams involved in bringing to a conclusion this remarkable period in baseball history.
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Excellent information about a forgotten era in baseball
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Enlightening History
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Extra extra!! baseball!!!
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Great book!
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The stories are interesting if they are true. This is the first I’ve ever heard that in the deadball era, the players seemed to allow other players to pad their results at the end of the season. If that’s true, then baseballs hallowed statistics are rubbish.
Another story about how Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker were going to be banned from the game. If this were true, or as dramatic as the book seemed to imply, this would be more widely known.
Kind of a nice fairy tale.
Interesting if true
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Just stop it or tell a listener that it is in the book. And for all you whiners that this is free speech and so politically correct, well I paid for the book and can give my opinion without your pompousity.
stop it
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