The Black Prince of Baseball

Klappentext Donald Dewey has published more than thirty books of fiction! nonfiction! and drama! including the history of baseball fans The Tenth Man and the novels The Fantasy League Murders and The Bolivian Sailor. Nicholas Acocella is the author or coauthor of several books on baseball! including (with Donald Dewey) The New Biographical History of Baseball: The Classic and Total Ballclubs. Zusammenfassung At the begiining of the twentieth century Hal Chase emerged as one of baseball's greatest players! though also as one of its most scandalous characters. But as Donald Dewey and Nicholas Acocella reveal in their groundbreaking biography! Chase was also a scapegoat for baseball notables with hands even dirtier than his.

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Donald Dewey has published more than thirty books of fiction, nonfiction, and drama, including the history of baseball fans The Tenth Man and the novels The Fantasy League Murders and The Bolivian Sailor. Nicholas Acocella is the author or coauthor of several books on baseball, including (with Donald Dewey) The New Biographical History of Baseball: The Classic and Total Ballclubs.

Klappentext

Donald Dewey has published more than thirty books of fiction, nonfiction, and drama, including the history of baseball fans The Tenth Man and the novels The Fantasy League Murders and The Bolivian Sailor. Nicholas Acocella is the author or coauthor of several books on baseball, including (with Donald Dewey) The New Biographical History of Baseball: The Classic and Total Ballclubs.

Zusammenfassung
At the begiining of the twentieth century Hal Chase emerged as one of baseball's greatest players, though also as one of its most scandalous characters. But as Donald Dewey and Nicholas Acocella reveal in their groundbreaking biography, Chase was also a scapegoat for baseball notables with hands even dirtier than his.

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AcknowledgmentsIntroductionCats and CradlesPlaying the FieldsGames for SaleYankee DandyConsolation PrizesBroadway LightsAftershocksInlaws and OutlawsManaging CrisisSecond ThoughtsPoxes on the HousePeaceful CoexistenceCaptain OutrageousChase in ChargeBreakdownsAffairs to RememberRelocationsThe Second CityA Federal CaseNon-SupportThe Red PrinceWar CloudsLaying DownFibbers and MageeBurning BridgesGiant AcquittalsThe Wild BunchDirty LaundryOut at HomeStill Crazy After All These YearsBlame GamesOn the BorderlineArizona TravelerWhen Hustlers MeetThe Nuclear Family and Other MeltdownsLast LicksThe Extra InningsEpilogueBibliographyIndex