Addie Joss on Baseball Collected Newspaper Columns and World Series Reports, 1907-1909 |
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| Author:
| Joss, Addie |
| Editor:
| Mitchem, Gary |
| Series title: | The Mcfarland Historical Baseball Library |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7864-8951-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2012 |
| Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $55.00 |
Book Description:
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Addie Joss (1880-1911) mowed down batters for the Cleveland Broncos/Naps from 1902 to 1910 before his career was cut short by his tragic death from tubercular meningitis in 1911. With a career ERA of 1.89 and two no-hitters, Joss earned Hall of Fame election despite a career that lasted less than ten years, the only player to do so. In the off-season, Joss also excelled as a sportswriter for the Toledo News-Bee and the Cleveland Press, filling the empty winter months...
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Addie Joss (1880-1911) mowed down batters for the Cleveland Broncos/Naps from 1902 to 1910 before his career was cut short by his tragic death from tubercular meningitis in 1911. With a career ERA of 1.89 and two no-hitters, Joss earned Hall of Fame election despite a career that lasted less than ten years, the only player to do so. In the off-season, Joss also excelled as a sportswriter for the Toledo News-Bee and the Cleveland Press, filling the empty winter months penning stories about the game he knew firsthand. This collection of Joss's newspaper columns and World Series reports is a treasury of the deadball era with intimate first-person observations of the game and its players from the first decade of the American League. Informative annotations, archival photographs, and a brief biography complete the work.