Completely redesigned and updated, this encyclopedic look at the full roster of baseball's Hall of Fame members, is a must-have for any fan. In addition to complete statistics on every player, including all those inducted through July 1999, there is the added bonus of a new, full-color photo insert.
Best known today as the Home of Baseball, Cooperstown and the Otsego Lake area are rich in history and, unlike many places, much of this heritage remains intact.
Examines the lives of Sterling and Stephen Clark, heirs to the Singer sewing machine fortune and two of America's premier art collectors, and their forty-year-feud, describing their influence on the artistic world of twentieth-century ...
A Critical History of Baseball's Hall of Fame Selection Process James F. Vail ... terms of office on 111–112, 257 Vuckovich, Pete 136, 217 Vukovich, John 69–70 Waddell, Rube 13, 61, 95–96, 133, 267 Wagner, Honus 49, 64, 93, 153, 187, ...
Hornsby was said to resent the presence of Wells and three other black players on the team, though the four men were the only English-speakers on the club and were the only ones who understood Hornsby's directions.
A History of Cooperstown: Including "The Chronicles of Cooperstown" to 1838 by James Fenimore Cooper ; "The History of Cooperstown"...
This guide to the village of Cooperstown, N.Y. (home to the Baseball Hall of Fame) covers its history as well as its attractions for potential tourists. Includes pictures.
Now, in The Cooperstown Casebook, Jay Jaffe shows us how to use his revolutionary ranking system to ensure the right players are recognized.
This is an anthology of 19 papers that were presented at the Twelfth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, held June 7-9, 2000 and co-sponsored by the State University of New York at Oneonta and the National Baseball Hall ...
This is an anthology of 24 papers that were presented at the Fourteenth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, held in June 2002, and co-sponsored by the State University of New York at Oneonta and the National Baseball ...
The essays are divided into six parts. "Baseball History, Myth, and the American Past" considers the distinction between reality and remembrance.