Outlaw Ballplayers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Outlaw Ballplayers write by R.G. (Hank) Utley. This book was released on 2014-08-23. Outlaw Ballplayers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The players of the independent Carolina League were outlaws. A diverse lot that included preachers and ex-cons, with many former and future Major Leaguers, they played ball during the desperate years of the Great Depression, when half of organized professional baseball's minor leagues went broke and ceased operations. Despite the number of defaulting leagues and teams, the players were held to their prior contracts, and many found themselves unemployed, unable to play without violating the reserve clause that bound them to their previous club. The threat of being blackballed by organized baseball notwithstanding, hundreds of players went to bat for the independent Carolina League, and their stories offer unique glimpses into the pastime's--and America's--most difficult years. This follow-up to the immensely popular and award-winning The Independent Carolina Baseball League, 1936-1938 (McFarland, 1999) takes the story of outlaw baseball into extra innings, offering a wealth of previously unpublished interviews with the key players and personnel associated with the league. With outstanding coverage of nearly 20 players, including the notorious Edwin Collins "Alabama" Pitts and well-known Lawrence Columbus "Crash" Davis, this book also offers the unique perspectives of umpires, journalists and players' wives. Appendices include a Pitts family history, the Kannapolis Towelers team record book, player records, and the history of the Carolina Victory League.
The Last Stand of Outlaw Baseball
The Last Stand of Outlaw Baseball - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Stand of Outlaw Baseball write by John Smirch, Sr.. This book was released on 2020-07-30. The Last Stand of Outlaw Baseball available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Series # 2 is from my three book, a baseball trilogy, detailing the Historical Record of the 1926 Copper League as Documented from the life experience of John Lawrence Smirch as a Copper League ball player, Highlighting twelve full games inning by inning ball games and the historical events that took place in this Southwest Outlaw League 100 years ago. The 1926 Copper League as it happened.
Outlaw League
Outlaw League - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Outlaw League write by Robert Foust. This book was released on 2021-06-09. Outlaw League available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While this book is basically a satirical look at baseball, it touches on other subjects along the way. It starts in 1956 long after the legend of Abner Doubleday, a Civil War officer, whose name is entwined with inventing the grand old game we now call baseball. Unlike the ironmen of the past who went the distance and hit for power too, the narrative explores how the game evolved into one that features specialized players like designated hitters and starting pitchers who rarely go more than six innings before the hot arms of the bullpen trot out. It also tells the journey of a young boy into manhood and the trials and tribulations he endures while seeking his lifelong dream and indeed his true calling in life of becoming a major-league pitcher. It touches on the draft and his induction into the military and ultimately his deployment to Southeast Asia and a combat tour that he barely survived. It then follows his path into the world of marijuana trafficking and ultimately a four-year stretch in a Canadian penitentiary. It climaxes with our protagonist getting an invitation at age thirty-six to spring training. He didn't make the team, but it was an achievement nonetheless. It is an entertaining read with great characters mixed in along the way. I hope you will enjoy reading this piece of baseball fiction as much as I enjoyed writing it.
The Independent Carolina Baseball League, 1936-1938
The Independent Carolina Baseball League, 1936-1938 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Independent Carolina Baseball League, 1936-1938 write by R.G. (Hank) Utley. This book was released on 2015-09-18. The Independent Carolina Baseball League, 1936-1938 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shortly after the independent Carolina League was formed in 1936, officials of the National Association of Professional Baseball--which oversaw what was known as "organized baseball," including the major leagues--began a campaign to destroy the league. The NAPB declared the Carolina League "outlaw" and blacklisted its players because their teams were pirating professionally-contracted ballplayers with the lure of higher wages, small-town hero worship and a career off-season. Backed into a corner, the Carolina League wore its "outlaw" label with a defiant swagger, challenging the all-powerful monopoly of organized professional baseball and its standard player contract. This complete history of the league reveals how it persevered through three tumultuous seasons, fueled by the tight-knit community spirit of North Carolina Piedmont textile towns. Over its three seasons of existence, the Carolina League attracted professional baseball players from all over the country and it gave the players control over their careers, setting a standard that was resisted until free agency was adopted in 1973.
The Baseball Trust
The Baseball Trust - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Baseball Trust write by Stuart Banner. This book was released on 2013-03-01. The Baseball Trust available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The impact of antitrust law on sports is in the news all the time, especially when there is labor conflict between players and owners, or when a team wants to move to a new city. And if the majority of Americans have only the vaguest sense of what antitrust law is, most know one thing about it-that baseball is exempt. In The Baseball Trust, legal historian Stuart Banner illuminates the series of court rulings that resulted in one of the most curious features of our legal system-baseball's exemption from antitrust law. A serious baseball fan, Banner provides a thoroughly entertaining history of the game as seen through the prism of an extraordinary series of courtroom battles, ranging from 1890 to the present. The book looks at such pivotal cases as the 1922 Supreme Court case which held that federal antitrust laws did not apply to baseball; the 1972 Flood v. Kuhn decision that declared that baseball is exempt even from state antitrust laws; and several cases from the 1950s, one involving boxing and the other football, that made clear that the exemption is only for baseball, not for sports in general. Banner reveals that for all the well-documented foibles of major league owners, baseball has consistently received and followed antitrust advice from leading lawyers, shrewd legal advice that eventually won for baseball a protected legal status enjoyed by no other industry in America. As Banner tells this fascinating story, he also provides an important reminder of the path-dependent nature of the American legal system. At each step, judges and legislators made decisions that were perfectly sensible when considered one at a time, but that in total yielded an outcome-baseball's exemption from antitrust law-that makes no sense at all.
