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Geoffrey Champion Ward (born 1940) is an American editor, author, historian and writer of scripts for American history documentaries for public television. He is the author or co-author of 19 books, including 10 companion books to the documentaries he has written.
7. The Roger Angell Baseball Collection by Roger Angell. Read anything by Roger Angell. He was—and is—the unchallenged dean of baseball writing, a perceptive reporter and a beautiful writer.
The Casey Award (stylized as CASEY) is an annual literary award that has been given to the best baseball book of the year since 1983.The award was created by Mike Shannon and W. J. Harrison, editors and co-founders of Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine because, up until then, there was no award given to authors and publishers of distinguished baseball literature; it is considered to be ...
Jim Devlin started his baseball career in 1873 and was the Louisville Grays' pitcher in 1876 and 1877. In 1876 he had a win–loss record of 30–35 and an earned run average of 1.56, while leading the league in complete games, innings pitched and strikeouts.
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In major league baseball, the dead-ball era refers to a period from about 1900 to 1920 in which run scoring was low and home runs were rare in comparison to the years that followed. In 1908, the major league batting average dropped to .239, and teams averaged just 3.4 runs per game, the lowest ever.
Alta Weiss Hisrich (February 9, 1890 – February 12, 1964), born Alta Weiss, was an American minor league baseball pitcher from Ohio who drew large crowds to exhibition games at minor league and major league venues in the US state of Ohio and Kentucky. She was a semiprofessional female baseball player who went on to become a physician.
Ric Burns (Eric Burns, born 1955) [1] is an American documentary filmmaker and writer.He has written, directed and produced historical documentaries since the 1990s, beginning with his collaboration on the celebrated PBS series The Civil War (1990), which he produced with his older brother Ken Burns and wrote with Geoffrey Ward.