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Do you think baseballs history book would have been re-written if N(egro) league players would have been playn

How much talent was lost because they were playing in obscuity in the N(egro) Leagues? At times, the black players had more talent than the white players. From all accounts that I have heard, when exhibition games were held, the black team beat the white times more times than not. Would Josh Gibson be the great HR hitter of the age? People say N(egro) League pitching wasn’t anything like the professionals, but look at the argument above. Look what Satchel Page did at 45?!!??!! The landscape of baseball would have changed drasticlly I believe.

It’s pretty obvious that there would have been major changes to the record books — how much change, and in what areas, are only open to speculation.

Remember, there were only 16 teams then, 400 major leaguers, so there would have been a vast concentration of talent through earlier breaking down of the racial barriers, that would have pushed out many mediocre, even average, white hitters and pitchers. Imagine taking today’s major leagues and going back to 16 teams of 25-man rosters.

Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, so many others would have been superb major leaguers. On the other hand, every team would have had top starters right through the rotation, every pitcher would have faced a stacked batting order.

It’s difficult to compare eras and try to extrapolate statistical performance. Even when Jackie Robinson finally broke in with Montreal Royals, teams didn’t have closers, let alone set-up men, or lefthanders brought in to pitch to one batter.

How would players of those eras, white or black, have done with manicured fields, good lights, gloves three times the size of their hands, nutrition and conditioning programs?

I still remember the Yankees finally breaking the colour barrier with Elston Howard, and Boston the last with Pumpsie Green. Integration was a slow process, some teams signing several blacks, most only one or two, so that by the time blacks were common on major league rosters, expansion had watered down the talent pool.

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Rob Neyer’s Big Book Of Baseball Blunders: A Complete Guide To The Worst Decisions And Stupidest Moments In Baseball History $5.89 BLOOPER: BALL SQUIRTS THROUGH BILLY BUCKNER’S LEGS. BLUNDER: BILLY BUCKNER’S MANAGER LEFT HIM IN THE GAME. Baseball bloopers are fun; they’re funny, even. A pitcher slips on the mound and his pitch sails over the backstop. An infielder camps under a pop-up…and the ball lands ten feet away. An outfielder tosses a souvenir to a fan…but that was just the second out, and runners are circling the bases (and laughing). Without these moments, the highlight reels wouldn’t be nearly as entertaining. Baseball blunders, however, can be tragic, and they will leave diehard fans asking why…why…why? Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Blunders does its best to answer all those whys, exploring the worst decisions and stupidest moments of managers, general managers, owners, and even commissioners. As he did in his Big Book of Baseball Lineups, Rob Neyer provides readers with a fascinating examination of baseball’s rich history, this time through the lens of the game’s sometimes hilarious, often depressing, and always perplexing blunders. · Which ill-fated move cost the Chicago White Sox a great hitter and the 1919 World Series? · What was Babe Ruth thinking when he became the first (and still the only) player to end a World Series by getting caught trying to steal? · Did playing one-armed Pete Gray in 1945 cost the Browns a pennant? · How did winning a coin toss lead to the Dodgers losing the National League pennant on Bobby Thomson’s "Shot Heard ’round the World"? · How damaging was the Frank Robinson-for-Milt Pappas deal, really? · Which of Red Sox manager Don Zimmer’s mistakes in 1978 was the worst? · Which Yankees trade was even worse than swapping Jay Buhner for Ken Phelps? · What non-move cost Buck Showalter a job and gave Joe Torre the opportunity of a lifetime? · Game 7, 2003 ALCS: Pedro winds up to throw his 123rd pitch…what were you thinking? These are just a few of the legendary (and not-so-legendary) blunders that Neyer analyzes, always with an eye on what happened, why it happened, and how it changed the fickle course of history. And in separate chapters, Neyer also reviews some of the game’s worst trades and draft picks and closely examines all the teams that fell just short of first place. Another in the series of Neyer’s Big Books of baseball history, Baseball Blunders should win a place in every devoted fan’s library.

The Baseball Fan’s Bucket List $13.79 No sport’s fans are more in touch with the history and ephemera of their game than baseball fans. Hitting the sweet spot of our national pastime, The Baseball Fan’s Bucket List presents a list of 162 "absolute must" things to do, see, get, and experience before you kick the bucket. Entries range from visiting Elysian Fields in Hoboken, NJ (site of the first pro baseball game), to starting a baseball card collection; experiencing Opening Day; attending your favorite team’s Fantasy Camp; reading classic books like Ball Four, and much more! Each entry includes interesting facts, entertaining trivia, and practical information about the activity, item, or travel destination. Also included is a complete checklist so the reader can keep a running tally of their Bucket-List achievements. With today’s tabloid stories of steroid abuse and off-the-field shenanigans encroaching on baseball’s idyllic charm, this unique guidebook encourages readers to celebrate all that’s good about being a fan.

The Dickson Baseball Dictionary $31.89 Hailed as "a staggering piece of scholarship" ( Wall Street Journal ) The Dickson Baseball Dictionary is the most complete resource on the lexicon of baseball in the English language. More than twenty-five years in the making with the help of more than 400 baseball and lexical experts this masterful third edition expanded by more than 30 percent with over 10 000 terms and 18 000 definitions provides the comprehensive history and meanings of words and phrases from around the world of baseball. Drawing on dozens of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals as well as contemporary sources Paul Dickson"s brilliant illuminating definitions trace the earliest appearances of our most treasured baseball expressions ("tearin" up the pea patch " "can o" corn " "catbird seat " etc.). Termed "baseball"s Webster " Dickson has spent nearly a decade painstakingly revising and writing new definitions for words both well-known and obscure including those introduced by Latin-American ballplayers and statistical expressions relating to fantasy baseball and the SABR/ Moneyball era. More than 200 photos throughout the book-many rare and previously unpublished-illuminate various historical and contemporary terms. Because of its deep and broad coverage its authoritativeness and its rich and colorful descriptions The Dickson Baseball Dictionary will prove indispensable to baseball fans and word lovers alike. The expanded and now-definitive work on the language of baseball-"That rarest of sports books a valuable reference work that provides absorbing and enlightening reading." ( Sports Illustrated )

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The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract $19.99 When Bill James published his original Historical Baseball Abstract in 1985, he produced an immediate classic, hailed by the Chicago Tribune as the "holy book of baseball." Now, baseball’s beloved "Sultan of Stats" (The Boston Globe) is back with a fully revised and updated edition for the new millennium. Like the original, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract is really several books in one. The Game provides a century’s worth of American baseball history, told one decade at a time, with energetic facts and figures about How, Where, and by Whom the game was played. In The Players, you’ll find listings of the top 100 players at each position in the major leagues, along with James’s signature stats-based ratings method called "Win Shares," a way of quantifying individual performance and calculating the offensive and defensive contributions of catchers, pitchers, infielders, and outfielders. And there’s more: the Reference section covers Win Shares for each season and each player, and even offers a Win Share team comparison. A must-have for baseball fans and historians alike, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract is as essential, entertaining, and enlightening as the sport itself.

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Baseball: A History Of America’s Favorite Game $9.29 Football is force and fanatics, basketball is beauty and bounce. Baseball is everything: action, grace, the seasons of our lives. George Vecsey’s book proves it, without wasting a word." -Lee Eisenberg, author of The Number In Baseball , one of the great bards of America’s Grand Old Game gives a rousing account of the sport, from its pre-Republic roots to the present day. George Vecsey casts a fresh eye on the game, illuminates its foibles and triumphs, and performs a marvelous feat: making a classic story seem refreshingly new. Baseball is a narrative of America’s can-do spirit, in which stalwart immigrants such as Henry Chadwick could transplant cricket and rounders into the fertile American culture and in which die-hard unionist baseballers such as Charles Comiskey and Connie Mack could eventually become the tightfisted avatars of the game’s big-money establishment. It’s a celebration of such underdogs as a rag-armed catcher turned owner named Branch Rickey and a sure-handed fielder named Curt Flood, both of whom flourished as true great men of history. But most of all, Baseball is a testament to the unbreakable bond between our nation’s pastime and the fans, who’ve remained loyal through the fifty-year-long interdict on black athletes, the Black Sox scandal, franchise relocation, and the use of performance-enhancing drugs by some major stars. Reverent, playful, and filled with Vecsey’s charm, Baseball begs to be read in the span of a rain-delayed doubleheader, and so enjoyable that, like a favorite team’s championship run, one hopes it never ends. "Vecsey possesses a journalist’s eye for detail and a historian’s feel for the sweep of action. His research is scrupulous and his writing crisp. This book is an instant classic a highly readable guide to America’s great enduring pastime." The Louisville Courier Journal From the Hardcover edition.

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