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Member Books MISFITS! Baseball’s Worst Ever Team
| MISFITS! Baseball’s Worst Ever Team |
| Written by J. Thomas Hetrick |
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Publisher: Pocol Press Publication Date: April 1999 Doomed to failure, the brave ballplayers of the ragtag 1899 Cleveland Spiders took the field. What followed were some of the strangest exploits ever seen on a baseball diamond. Laugh at their ridiculous exploits! Imagine a team that played virtually no home games! Join them on their bumpy railroad ride to mediocrity. Savor a ball club of Charlie Browns who played so poorly that one Cleveland sportswriter penned a sardonic apology explaining the virtues of defeat. These colorful ballplayers, men like Crazy Schmit, Tommy Tucker, Ossie Schreckengost, and Louis Sockalexis, can’t be found anywhere near Cooperstown. Discover the riches of 19th Century baseball when balls were grass-stained, beat-up, and used all day. When tickets cost 50 cents. When playing fields were only parks and not stadiums. When owners could own multiple teams. When protesting an umpire’s call meant an automatic five-dollar fine. When rowdyism and chaos ruled. Cleveland’s Plain Dealer called the book “exhaustively detailed.” The Cooperstown Review wrote, “Hetrick deserves a standing ovation for this meticulous research.” MISFITS! Baseball’s Worst Ever Team contains new illustrations, tons of hysterical anecdotes, period sports writing, sordid statistics, references, appendices, bibliography, and index. The book can be ordered from the publisher at: www.pocolpress.com. |
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