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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 October, fans did not hold it against him--a slump can happen to anybody...

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 average engraved upon it. Throughout the years, heated battles for the Silve...

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. This book is the first ever full-length biography of this long ago superstar.

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, times at bat, hits, runs scored, doubles and runs batted in. For much of h...

Shoeless" Joe Jackson was one of baseballs 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 star of the team and a favorite of fans with his hitting and throwing abili...

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 Clevelands 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 is a complete biography of Sockalexis, known during his playing days as ...

Of the 256 players, managers, and executives in the Hall of Fame, the names we know well - Ty Cobb, Connie Mack, Willie Mays - account for a small minority. But all other members of the Hall of Fame were celebrated in their day, or else by baseball historians in the days since. Yet most fans know little about these men. This book contains biographical and statistical information on 16 Hall of Famers unfamiliar to many fans, including Morgan G....

During the 1890s, Cleveland's National League team, called the Blues and later the Spiders, built a reputation as baseball's roughest, toughest club. Baseball became a war in the Gay Nineties, full of cheating, intimidation, and violence on and off the field, from which the concept of sportsmanship had virtually disappeared. The Spiders were the rowdiest team of all.

In this critically acclaimed biography, the life and career of Joe Jackson is examined anew. The story of Jacksons youth and early experiences in textile baseball, his rise to stardom in the American League, and his involvement in the Black Sox scandal are carefully described and documented.

This book provides chapter-length biographies on 16 Hall of Famers from baseballs distant past. Award-winning biographer David Fleitz covers in detail the lives and careers of Negro League and pre-Negro League greats, big leaguers from the 19th century and stars from the deadball era through the Second World War.

A survey of the contribution of the Irish to the American pastime and the ways in which Irish immigrants and baseball came of age together. It features chapters that cover the Irish and early immigrants in Boston, the Chicago White Stockings, the Shamrocks, Trojans and Giants, Charlie Comiskey, Patsy Tebeau and the Hibernian Spiders, and, more.