Ed McKean: Slugging Shortstop of the Cleveland Spiders

by Rich Blevins

The exemplar of the major league slugging shortstop before either Honus Wagner or Lou Boudreau, Ed McKean spent a dozen seasons as a high-profile contributor to the Cleveland Spiders, leading his team to three playoff berths and the 1895 Temple Cup championship. He played in no fewer than four of the Society for American Baseball Research's "100 greatest games of the 19th century."

This first McKean biography returns the charismatic Irishman...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786473347
• ISBN13: 9780786473342
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher