Professional baseball took root in America in the 1860s during the same years that the sons of the first wave Irish famine refugees began to reach adulthood, and the Irish quickly demonstrated a spec
"Shoeless" Joe Jackson was one of baseball's greatest hitters and most colorful players. Born Joseph Jefferson Wofford Jackson on July 16, 1888, in Pickens County, South Carolina, Jackson went to work
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"Since 1949, the Louisville Slugger company has presented the man with the highest batting average at season's end with the Silver Bat Award. Heated battles for the award have featured unusual machina
"Shoeless" Joe Jackson was one of baseball's greatest hitters and most colorful players. This work chronicles Jackson's life from his poor beginnings to his involvement in the scandal surrounding the
During the 1890s, the Cleveland Spiders built a reputation as baseball’s roughest club. The game devolved into a war in the Gay Nineties, rife with cheating, intimidation and violence on and off the f
Louis Sockalexis, a Penobscot Indian from Maine, was one of the greatest college baseball stars of the 1890s. Following his days playing for Holy Cross and Notre Dame, he went directly into the major
Cap Anson’s plaque at the Baseball Hall of Fame sums up his career with admirable simplicity: “The greatest hitter and greatest National League player-manager of the 19th century.” Anson helped make b
