19th Century Baseball in Chicago

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Summary: Pictures are Great!
Review: Mark Rucker comes through with a great selection of Chicago baseball pictures, and the printing quality is excellent. John Freyer's text helps carry the pictures along. Book has some minor typos of proper names and one clear mislabeling (a picture purportedly of the 1888-89 world tour is really an in-season 1888 pose of Chicago players with some noted actors including De Wolf Hopper, the original reciter of the poem "Casey at the Bat"). 19th Century Baseball in Chicago gets off to a nice start in describing baseball in Chicago prior to its first professional league team of the 1870s. For more on the personalities of the officials and players of the city's National League club up to 1900, especially well-known figures Albert Spalding, William Hulbert and Cap Anson, I would humbly recommend my 2003 book Cap Anson 1: When Captaining Meant Something: Leadership in Baseball's Early Years.

Rating:
Summary: Pictures are Great!
Review: Mark Rucker comes through with a great selection of Chicago baseball pictures, and the printing quality is excellent. John Freyer's text helps carry the pictures along. Book has some minor typos of proper names and one clear mislabeling (a picture purportedly of the 1888-89 world tour is really an in-season 1888 pose of Chicago players with some noted actors including De Wolf Hopper, the original reciter of the poem "Casey at the Bat"). 19th Century Baseball in Chicago gets off to a nice start in describing baseball in Chicago prior to its first professional league team of the 1870s. For more on the personalities of the officials and players of the city's National League club up to 1900, especially well-known figures Albert Spalding, William Hulbert and Cap Anson, I would humbly recommend my 2003 book Cap Anson 1: When Captaining Meant Something: Leadership in Baseball's Early Years.