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Spitting On Diamonds: A Spitball Pitcher's Journey To The Major Leagues, 1911-1919 (Sports and American Culture).
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More Clyde H. Hogg, "Spitting On Diamonds: A Spitball Pitcher's Journey To The Major Leagues, 1911-1919 (Sports and American Culture)". In 1911, when Bradley Hogg began his major-league pitching career for the National League's Boston Rustlers, baseball was a different game. Hogg played during a time known as the Dead Ball Era, when a pitcher could spit on, shine up, or even roughen a ball to secure an advantage over a hitter. Players used heavier bats and choked up farther on the handle, and the annual World Series was just arriving. But the names of the best and most colorful players remain familiar today: Cy Young, Casey Stengel, Honus Wagner, Rogers Hornsby, Christy Mathewson. During his nine-year professional career, Hogg played with or against twenty-seven Hall of Fame ballplayers and under the critical gaze of two Hall of Fame umpires and eleven Hall of Fame sports writers. In Spitting on Diamonds, Clyde Hogg details the life of baseball's everyman, including excerpts from newspapers throughout the country to bring to life the times in which Bradley Hogg played.The author shows how Hogg's career is representative of the thousands of men who have played major-league baseball since its inception more than 125 years ago, men who didn't make it into the Hall of Fame or win awards but made it possible for millions of fans to enjoy the game. These players were the flannelled hosts of America's favorite pastime and the ones who made the game what it was and is today. The author uses Hogg's career as a spitball pitcher in leagues from coast to coast from the majors to the minors to show the rapid change and growth of our nation between 1910 and 1920. With enough baseball statistics to satisfy even the most hard core fan, this time capsule of early twentieth-century America will appeal to sports enthusiasts and readers of general historical nonfiction alike. LINKS
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