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Baseball on the Prairie: How Seven Small-Town Teams Shaped Texas League History (Sports) - Softcover

Rutherford, Kris

 
9781609499358: Baseball on the Prairie: How Seven Small-Town Teams Shaped Texas League History (Sports)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1609499352 ISBN 13: 9781609499358
Verlag: HISTORY PR, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

At the close of the nineteenth century, railroad expansion in Texas at once shrank the state and expanded opportunities, including that of Texas League Baseball. Previously, the major cities monopolized Texas minor-league ball, but with the rails came small-town teams without which the league may have floundered. Sherman, Denison, Paris, Corsicana, Cleburne, Greenville and Temple teams produced some of the Texas League's greatest players and provided unprecedented statewide interest. The 1902 Corsicana Oil Citys was one of the most successful teams of the time, claiming the second-best winning percentage and baseball's most lopsided victory, 51-3 over Texarkana's Casketmakers. In its only year in the league, Cleburne won the league championship and team owner Doak Roberts discovered the great Tris Speaker. Kris Rutherford pieces together the Texas League's early days and the people and towns that made this centuries-old institution possible.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kris Rutherford is a part-time Lamar County, Texas resident who has been researching the early Texas League for nearly a decade. He is the author of Homeseekers, Parasites and the Texas Midland: The Texas League in Paris, 1896-1904, " as well as the middle-grade sports novels "Batting Ninth" and "Nothin' But Net."Scott Hanzelka is a baseball historian and expert on the Texas League."

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Verlag
HISTORY PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1609499352
ISBN 13 
9781609499358
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
191
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