Tales from the Deadball Era: Ty Cobb, Home Run Baker, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and the Wildest Times in Baseball History

by Mark S. Halfon

Book Overview

2014 Baseball Caucus Readers' Choice Award winner from the Special Libraries Association

The Deadball Era (1901-1920) is a baseball fan's dream. Hope and despair, innocence and cynicism, and levity and hostility blended then to create an air of excitement, anticipation, and concern for all who entered the confines of a Major League ballpark. Cheating for the sake of victory earned respect, corrupt ballplayers fixed games with impunity,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496235193
• ISBN13: 9781496235190
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"