The 1922 St. Louis Browns

Best of the American League's Worst

Roger A. Godin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

239 Seiten

2014
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-7745-6 (ISBN)

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Sometimes life isn't fair: Most of the finishes in the 52-year history of the franchise (1901-1953) were in the depths of the second division. The one exception was 1922, a year in which the Browns led the league in batting, slugging, runs, triples, stolen bases, walks, strikeouts, saves and earned run average--and still came in second.

This book meticulously recreates that year from spring training to season's end, when they fought the Yankees down to the wire, losing by one game on the next to the last day.

Roger A. Godin currently serves as team curator for the NHL’s Minnesota Wild after having served two tours as director of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame. While American hockey is the principal focus of his research, he has written a number of monographs for Society for American Baseball Research publications. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Spring Training: Alabamy Bound

2. April: Kenny Williams Took a Bat and Gave a Baseball Three Long Whacks

3. May: Welcome Back Babe

4. June: Troubles with Mays and Haney

5. July: “I Never Doctored the Ball”

6. August: Reinforcement from Boston

7. September: “I Benched Davis...to Get Rid of Smith”

8. Aftermath: Last Days and Last Hurrahs

Appendix A: Batting, Pitching, and Fielding Statistics

Appendix B: Dave Danforth Statement, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Appendix C: The “Little World Series” Games

Bibliography

Index

Zusatzinfo	16 photos, appendices, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	286 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7864-7745-8 / 0786477458
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-7745-6 / 9780786477456
Zustand	Neuware