Cellar Dwellers (eBook)

The Worst Teams in Baseball History

Jonathan Weeks (Autor)

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2012
192 Seiten
Scarecrow Press (Verlag)
978-0-8108-8533-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Cellar Dwellers: The Worst Teams in Baseball History is a colorful tribute to the sport’s least successful clubs. It spans three centuries of professional baseball, recounting the seasons of those teams whose misadventures have largely been forgotten over time. Chapters not only cover the stories of the luckless teams, they also include reams of statistics, amusing anecdotes, historical perspectives, and detailed player profiles of those who helped the clubs—and those who helped them fail.

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In 1890, baseball's Pittsburgh Alleghenys won a measly 23 games, losing 113. The Cleveland Spiders topped this record when they lost an astonishing 134 games in 1899. Over 100 years later, the 2003 Detroit Tigers stood apart as the only team in baseball history to lose 60 games before July in a season. These stories and more are told in Cellar Dwellers: The Worst Teams in Baseball History, a colorful tribute to the sport's least successful clubs.Cellar Dwellers spans three centuries of professional baseball, recounting the seasons of those teams whose misadventures have largely been forgotten over time. Chapters not only cover the stories of the luckless teams, they also include reams of statistics and detailed player profiles of those who helped the clubsand those who helped them fail. In addition to the Alleghenys, Spiders, and Tigers, the cellar dwellers of baseball include: 1904 and 1909 Washington Senators1916 Philadelphia Athletics1928 and 1941 Philadelphia Phillies1932 Boston Red Sox1935 Boston Braves1939 St. Louis Browns1952 Pittsburgh Pirates 1962 New York MetsWhile many books revel in the glories of teams whose exploits have become legendary, the stories found in this volume offer an engaging alternative to the thrill of victory. Embellished with comical and amusing anecdotes alongside historical perspectives, Cellar Dwellers will entertain baseball fans and fascinate those who love baseball history.

Autor

Jonathan Weeks is a lifelong baseball enthusiast and member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).

Inhalt

PrefaceChapter 1 – 1890 Pittsburgh AlleghenysChapter 2 – 1899 Cleveland SpidersChapter 3 – 1904 Washington SenatorsChapter 4 – 1909 Washington SenatorsChapter 5 – 1916 Philadelphia AthleticsChapter 6 – 1928 Philadelphia PhilliesChapter 7 – 1932 Boston Red SoxChapter 8 – 1935 Boston BravesChapter 9 – 1939 St. Louis BrownsChapter 10 – 1941 Philadelphia PhilliesChapter 11 – 1952 Pittsburgh PiratesChapter 12 – 1962 New York MetsChapter 13 – 2003 Detroit TigersChapter 14 – Dishonorable Mention AppendixBibliographical Notes

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.7.2012
• Zusatzinfo: 11 Illustrations including: - 11 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-8108-8533-6 / 0810885336
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-8533-2 / 9780810885332