Nineteenth Century Baseball

In March 1871, ten of the United States’ most powerful professional baseball clubs met in Brooklyn, New York. Out of that meeting came the sport’s first major league: the National Association of Professional Baseball Players. The Philadelphia Athletics, with a record of 21–7, captured the new circuit’s first championship. From the National Association through the American League’s inaugural season in the final year of the century, this work is a year-by-year statistical history of the teams and players of the nineteenth century’s major leagues. The teams are listed by league, with full rosters and complete statistics for each player. An introductory section for each year places the league in historical perspective. Exhaustive team and player indexes are also included.

Award-winning author Marshall D. Wright is a sports statistician and archivist. He lives in Quincy, Massachusetts and is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and Society International of Hockey Research.

Marshall D. Wright

Format: softcover (7 x 10)
Pages: 350
Bibliographic Info: tables, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2004 [1996]
pISBN: 978-0-7864-1895-4
eISBN: 978-1-4766-1192-1
Imprint: McFarland

“more thorough and inclusive [than other sources]. Recommended”—Choice; “libraries should add this to their reference shelves”—Library Journal; “helpful”—Sports Collectors Digest; “a signal achievement”—ARBA; “documentation is staggering…an amazing amount of information…Wright knows the game…incredible research and diligence…belongs on your baseball shelf”—One More Inning; “statistical history…complete with rosters and records on every player”—USA Today Sports Weekly; “a home run…valuable”—BQR Yearbook.