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Harry Wright - The Father of Professional Base Ball (Paperback, New)
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Harry Wright - The Father of Professional Base Ball (Paperback, New)
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Every magnate in the country is indebted to [Harry Wright] for the
establishment of baseball as a business, and every patron for
fulfilling him with a systematic recreation. Every player is
indebted to him for inaugurating an occupation in which he gains a
livelihood, and the country at large for adding one more industry
to furnish employment"--The Reach Guide (1896). This full-length
biography resurrects perhaps baseball's foremost-unrecognized
legend, "The Father of Professional Base Ball," Hall of Famer Harry
Wright. The son of a premier cricketer, Sam Wright, Harry converted
(together with his Hall of Fame brother George) to baseball after
emigrating to America from England. Harry Wright went on to become
one of baseball's most successful players, managers, and
innovators. Among his lasting contributions to the game were not
only the implementation of spring training, doubleheaders, and the
modern uniform, but the advent of professionalism, which
contemporaries contended never would have been successfully
established without him. Drawing on contemporary sources including
his own papers, this book covers all of Wright's life: his arrival
in America; his experiences with the undefeated Cincinnati Red
Stockings of 1869-70; his relationship with his wives and children;
his experiences in Boston, Providence, and Philadelphia; his death
at age 60 in 1895; and his election to the Hall of Fame in 1953.
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