Stealing Games: How John McGraw Transformed Baseball with the 1911 New York Giants

by Maury Klein

Book Overview

The 1911 New York Giants stole an astonishing 347 bases, a record that still stands more than a century later. That alone makes them special in baseball history, but as Maury Klein relates in Stealing Games they also embodied a rapidly changing America on the cusp of a faster, more frenetic pace of life dominated by machines, technology, and urban culture. Baseball, too, was evolving from the dead-ball to the live-ball era--the cork-centered ball...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1632860244
• ISBN13: 9781632860248
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"