Where They Ain't: The Fabled Life and Untimely Death of the Original Baltimore Orioles, the Team That Gave Birth to Modern Baseball Paperback - 2000 - 1st Edition
by Burt Solomon
"A rousing good story, a rich tapestry of charming rogues, hustlers, and gritty ballparks that brings to sparkling life the game of baseball as it was played a century ago."--Doris Kearns Goodwin.
First line
The weather in Brooklyn had been quirky since Christmas.
From the jacket flap
In the 1890s, the legendary Baltimore Orioles of the National League [sic] under the tutelage of manager Ned Hanlon, perfected a style of play known as "scientific baseball," featuring such innovations as the sacrifice bunt, the hit- and-run, the squeeze play, and the infamous Baltimore chop. Its best hitter, Wee Willie Keeler, had the motto "keep your eye clear and hit 'em where they ain't"--which he did. He and his colorful teammates, fierce third-baseman John McGraw, avuncular catcher Wibert Robinson, and heartthrob center fielder Joe Kelly, won three straight pennants from 1894 to 1896. But the Orioles were swept up and ultimately destroyed in a business intrigue involving the political machines of three large cities and collusion with the ambitious men who ran the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers. Burt Solomon narrates the rise and fall of this colorful franchise as a cautionary tale of greed and overreaching that speaks volumes as well about the enterprise of baseball a century later.
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- Title Where They Ain't: The Fabled Life and Untimely Death of the Original Baltimore Orioles, the Team That Gave Birth to Modern Baseball
- Author Burt Solomon
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 372
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Doubleday Books, New York
- Date 2000-04-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780385498821 / 0385498829
- Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 8.72 x 6.2 x 0.9 in (22.15 x 15.75 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: South Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Maryland
- Library of Congress subjects Baseball - United States - History - 20th, Baseball - United States - History - 19th
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99057925
- Dewey Decimal Code 796.357
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