Encyclopedia of major league baseball team histories, American League
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Bibliographic Information
Encyclopedia of major league baseball team histories, American League
(Baseball and American society, 7)
Meckler, c1991
Available at 1 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This encyclopaedia offers histories of each baseball team in the American League from 1903 to 1990. It includes bibliographies and statistical tables and provides profiles of important players, - Ty Cobb, Lefty Grove, Joe DiMaggio, Grover Cleveland Alexander and Jimmie Foxx. This book covers such teams as the Boston Red Sox, the New York Yankees, the Kansas City Royals and the Toronto Blue Jays, and examines the game of baseball from the fan's point of view. The text also tells the story of ball-parks, like Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park and Tiger Stadium.
Table of Contents
- Boston Red Sox - their feet shall slide...baseball's most tragic team, Fred Ivor-Campbell
- Chicago White Sox - second-class team in the second city, Rich Lindberg
- Cleveland Indians - recent "wahoo woes" overshadow Cleveland's baseball tradition, Morris Eckhouse
- Detroit Tigers - the corner-stone of Detroit baseball is stability, Morris Eckhouse
- Kansas City Royals - building a champion from scratch in America's heartland, Bill Carle
- Los Angeles Angels/California Angels - a cowboy's search for another champion, Richard E.Beverage
- New York Yankees - pride, tradition, and a bit of controversy, Marty Appel
- Philadelphia Athletics/Kansas City Athletics Oakland A's - three families and three baseball epochs, Norman Macht
- St. Louis Browns/Baltimore Orioles - one of the very worst, and one of the very best, Bill Felber
- Seattle Mariners - waiting for a winner in baseball's forgotten city, James O'Donnell
- Seattle Pilots/Millwaukee Brewers - the bombers, the bangers, and the burners, Paul Adomites
- Toronto Blue Jays - okay, blue jays! from worst to first in a decade, Peter C.Bjarkman
- Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins - expansion - era baseball comes to the American league, Peter C.Bjarkman
- Washington Senators/Texas Rangers - there are no dragons in baseball, only shortstops, Peter C.Bjarkman.
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