A gentleman when the game was hard-bitten, played by
rough-and-ready lads out to win whatever the cost..."" Australia
had few sporting heroes in the years preceding its federation in
1901. But before its twentieth-century Olympic trailblazers and
Depression-era icons such as Phar Lap and Don Bradman, came an
Australian sporting pioneer who was celebrated on the most
glamorous stage in the world - American major league baseball. Joe
Quinn's story has, until now, been lost in the land of his birth.
This tale gallops from the deprivation of famine-ravaged Ireland
through colonial Australia to the raucous ballfields of
nineteenth-century America, with their unruly players and owners,
affray and adulation and backroom betrayals. Through 17 seasons in
the major leagues, ""Undertaker"" Joe Quinn earned his place
amongst the colourful characters who pioneered the modern game of
baseball, as much for his ability to stand apart from their bad
behaviour as for his steadfastness on the field. Meet Australia's
first professional baseball player and manager, a man born to Irish
refugees in an outback squatter's camp and whose willingness to
""have a go"" in the grand Australian tradition will live long in
the minds of sports fans on both sides of the Pacific.
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