League Park

Historic Home of Cleveland Baseball, 1891-1946

Ken Krsolovic, Bryan Fritz (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

228 Seiten

2013
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-6826-3 (ISBN)

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Provides a comprehensive history of League Park, primary home field for Major League Baseball in Cleveland from 1891 to 1946. The site boasts significant history beyond the majors, including the National Football League, Negro League baseball, college football and boxing, and has experienced a multitude of amazing events and people.

This is a comprehensive history of League Park, primary home field for Major League Baseball in Cleveland from 1891 to 1946. The site boasts significant history beyond the majors, including the National Football League, Negro League baseball, college football and boxing, and has experienced an uncanny multitude of amazing events and people, although that history has heretofore gone largely unrecognized. This chronicle allows for these grounds to take their place among the more heralded parks of baseball's past and present. Perhaps the most unique feature of the site is that is has survived to this day as a baseball grounds, with renovations of the site scheduled to begin in the spring of 2012.

Ken Krsolovic is a longtime athletic administrator, baseball coach and sports broadcaster at several colleges and universities. Formerly, he was a collegiate sports information director, who authored and designed over 30 award-winning team media guides. He lives in Concord, Ohio. Cleveland prosecutor Bryan Fritz lives in Fairview Park, Ohio.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

1—The Wooden Era

2—Concrete and Steel

3—1920 and the World Series

4—Call It Dunn Field

5—Surviving the Stadium

6—Negro League Park

7—Beyond Baseball

8—Decline and Rebirth

Appendices

A—League Park and Its Teams, by Year

B—Box Scores from Memorable Games

C—Dunn Field Pointers

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.3.2013
Zusatzinfo	106 photographs
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7864-6826-2 / 0786468262
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-6826-3 / 9780786468263
Zustand	Neuware