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Stealing Games: How John McGraw Transformed Baseball with the 1911 New York Giants
Maury Klein
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| #722786 in Books | 2016-03-22 | 2016-03-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.50 x1.41 x6.35l,.0 | File type: PDF | 400 pages||14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.| Author Maury Klein Has Written a Gem For Your Library on Baseball History|By Bill Emblom|The title of this recent book on John McGraw's Giants comes from the 1911 Giants running game of stealing bases. Part one of the book covers McGraw's life and career up until the 1911 season. Included here is McGraw's unfortunate home life in Truxton, New York, his playing days with the|||"Mr. Klein’s broad historical knowledge is at play here as he often moves outside the lines to talk about the culture, economics and even the disasters of the time . . . [his] achievement is to let us view early-20th-century America through the prism of
The 1911 New York Giants stole an astonishing 347 bases, a record that still stands more than a century later. That alone makes them special in baseball history, but as Maury Klein relates in Stealing Games they also embodied a rapidly changing America on the cusp of a faster, more frenetic pace of life dominated by machines, technology, and urban culture.
Baseball, too, was evolving from the dead-ball to the live-ball era--the cork-centered ball was intr...
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