Hardscrabble diamonds : postwar baseball in New England and the Maritimes, 1945-1960

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    • Howell, Colin D.

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Hardscrabble diamonds : postwar baseball in New England and the Maritimes, 1945-1960

Colin Howell

McFarland & Company, c2023

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-210) and index

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内容説明

Part history, part memoir, part statistical analysis, this book tells the remarkable and largely forgotten story of how the baseball hotbed of Canada's northeastern Maritime provinces evolved into "NCAA North" during the 1940s and 1950s. A summer training ground for players from leading U.S. college programs, the region attracted talented players seeking higher salaries than they could get in the American minor league system. Major league organizations came to scout blue-chip prospects. In this competitive environment, only the best were able to crack the rosters of town teams in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Maine. A Quality of Competition Index for various northeast leagues provides major league equivalencies for selected players.

目次

Table of Contents Preface: Baseball, Memory and History One. The Postwar Flourishing of Baseball in the Maritimes Two. Home Diamonds: Local Stars of Postwar Maritime Baseball Three. The Barnstorming Era: American Baseball’s Northward Glance, 1948–50 Four. Tipping the Balance: The American Influence and the Marginalization of Local Players Five. Bill Brooks, Art Hoch and the Carolinian Connection Six. “NCAA North”: CWS Champions, Bonus Babies and ­All-Americans Seven. Playing in “Color Bar Limbo”: Black Players in the Maritimes, 1946–60 Eight. Borderlands Baseball: New Brunswick and Maine Nine. Troublesome Times: 1955–57 Ten. Playing Out the String: 1957–59 Eleven. ­Post-Game Reminiscences Twelve. Great Performers, Great Performances: A Statistical Retrospective Appendix 1: Career Batting and Major League Equivalencies: Maritimes and Maine Appendix 2: ­Single-Season Batting and Major League Equivalencies: Maritimes and Maine Appendix 3: Career Pitching Appendix 4: Players from Major NCAA Programs Essay on Sources Chapter Notes Bibliography Index

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