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Title: Autumn Glory: Baseball's First World Series by Louis P. Masur ISBN: 0-8090-2763-1 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub Pub. Date: June, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Not quite the first...
Comment: Bob Ryan's book may not be as good as Masur's, but at least he's got the most basic of facts right - his subtitle is "A Chronicle of Boston's Remarkable Victory in the First Modern World Series of 1903", while Masur's is "Baseball's First World Series". The first World Series was played in 1884 between Providence of the National League and New York of the American Association. A weak case could also be made for the games played between Chicago and Cincinnati two years earlier, though most regard these as exhibitions.
Baseball did not magically appear at the beginning of the 20th century - the National League was founded before Custer met his fate at the Little Bighorn. Subtitles like Masur's imply that nothing of importance or interest occurred in baseball in 19th century.
For a good description of the World Series played before "Baseball's First World Series", I recommend Jerry Lansche's "Glory Fades Away: The Nineteenth-Century World Series Rediscovered".
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Rating: 4
Summary: Baseball in America 100 Years Ago
Comment: The title of the book suggests a complete book on the 1903 World Series. Author Louis Masur does an admirable job of bringing the reader back in time to the way it was 100 years ago. The book is 236 pages long, and I initially wondered how he was going to elaborate on an eight game Series over that many pages. What the author did was alternate a chapter on each of the eight games in this best five out of nine games with goings on in the baseball world during the year of 1903. I especially enjoyed the chapters on the games itself as the author does a great job of telling us what baseball and its fans in America were like 100 years ago. The author refers to the Boston American League team as the "Americans" while I have always heard them referred to as the "Pilgrims." This was the Series in which Boston's Royal Rooters became famous for their fan support with their band and singing of various songs including the popular song "Tessie" in which they adapted words to apply to Pirates' shortstop Honus Wagner. It is not mentioned in the book, but JFK's grandfather was a member of the Royal Rooters. The book is an easy read and one that tells us what it was like to be a ballplayer and fan 100 years ago. You will also see that baseball's present day problems are not anything new.
Rating: 5
Summary: The first World Series
Comment: It is appropriate, in this 100th anniversary of the first baseball World Series, that there is a book telling all about it. It's especially appropriate that this book is extremely well-written, interesting and informative. We readers are treated to a history of the rivalry between the established National League, and the upstart American League. We are given thumbnail biographies of many of the personalities of that era, both club owners and players. There is a concise recitation of the "Peace Conference" that effectively ended the rivalry, and we also get to review the respective seasons of the eventual Leagues champions. Each of the eight Series games is then covered out by out, but it's not boring in the least. Along the way we also learn a lot about the way some of the baseball rules we take for granted were established, including the umpire's hand signals, and the foul/strike rule. The fans played a major part in the game, particularly the Royal Rooters from Boston, whose antics would amaze today's somewhat rowdy supporters. This is a book well worth reading, not only for baseball fans, but for lovers of the unusual aspects of American history.
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Title: The Teammates by David Halberstam ISBN: 140130057X Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The First World Series and the Baseball Fanatics of 1903 by Roger I. Abrams ISBN: 1555535615 Publisher: Northeastern University Press Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: When Boston Won the World Series: A Chronicle of Boston's Remarkable Victory in the First Modern World Series of 1903 by Bob Ryan ISBN: 0762414669 Publisher: Running Press Pub. Date: 18 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Baseball in Blue and Gray: The National Pastime During the Civil War by George B. Kirsch ISBN: 0691057338 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Long Ball: The Summer of '75--Spaceman, Catfish, Charlie Hustle, and the Greatest World Series Ever Played by Tom Adelman ISBN: 0316068993 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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