The Irish in baseball
Subtitle: an early history
By: David L. Fleitz.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780786434190
Subjects: Baseball -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Irish American baseball players -- History -- 19th century; Irish Americans -- History -- 19th century; Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century
Description: "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. This is a survey of the enormous contribution of the Irish to the American pastime and the ways in which Irish immigrants and baseball came of age together"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings-the Irish in Boston; title: The Irish White Stockings of Chicago; title: Shamrocks, Trojans, and Giants; title: Charlie Comiskey and the St. Louis Browns; title: White Stockings, Colts, and Cubs; title: Patsy Tebeau and the Hibernian Spiders; title: Ned Hanlon and the Orioles; title: The Heavenly Twins and the Boston Irish; title: The umpires; title: Comiskey and the White Sox; title: Mcgraw and the Giants; title: Wild Bill, Whiskey Face, and the tall tactician; title: Red Sox and royal rooters.