Overview
This is a comprehensive history of League Park, primary home field for Major League Baseball in Cleveland from 1891 to 1946. The site boasts significant history beyond the majors, including the National Football League, Negro League baseball, college football and boxing, and has experienced an uncanny multitude of amazing events and people, although that history has heretofore gone largely unrecognized. This chronicle allows for these grounds to take their place among the more heralded parks of baseball's past and present. Perhaps the most unique feature of the site is that is has survived to this day as a baseball grounds, with renovations of the site scheduled to begin in the spring of 2012.
Full Product Details
Author: Ken Krsolovic ,
Bryan Fritz
Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.318kg
ISBN: 9780786468263
ISBN 10: 0786468262
Pages: 228
Publication Date: 30 March 2013
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
[t]he authors have created a well-documented and carefully constructed history of a ballpark, a fan base, and a community...a loving search to explain why the ballpark deserves a worthy place in history. Krsolovic and Fritz do excellent detective work, exploiting primary sources and a mix of histories to present a chronological understanding of the importance of early ballparks to any geographic area, and to those who reside there --SABR Deadball Committee Newsletter; a well-researched look at one of major-league baseball's quirkier ballparks...generously sprinkled with vintage black-and-white photos of the park --The Tampa Tribune.
[t]he authors have created a well-documented and carefully constructed history of a ballpark, a fan base, and a community...a loving search to explain why the ballpark deserves a worthy place in history. Krsolovic and Fritz do excellent detective work, exploiting primary sources and a mix of histories to present a chronological understanding of the importance of early ballparks to any geographic area, and to those who reside there --<i>SABR Deadball Committee Newsletter</i>; a well-researched look at one of major-league baseball's quirkier ballparks...generously sprinkled with vintage black-and-white photos of the park --<i>The Tampa Tribune</i>.
Author Information
Ken Krsolovic is a longtime athletic administrator, baseball coach and sports broadcaster at several colleges and universities. Formerly, he was a collegiate sports information director, who authored and designed over 30 award-winning team media guides. He lives in Concord, Ohio. Cleveland prosecutor Bryan Fritz lives in Fairview Park, Ohio.
