The 1889 baseball season is unique in the history of baseball. Both leagues - the veteran National League and the upstart American Association - featured thrilling pennant races that were not decided until the final day of the season. There was excitement off the field as well; the players' union (known then as ""the Brotherhood"") sowed the seeds of the most ambitious player revolt in baseball history. This work presents accounts from the major newspapers of each of the four teams' cities - the New York Times, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the Boston Herald, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch - to capture the day-by-day excitement of the 1889 pennant race and the passion that the press and public had for baseball. The National League race pitted the world champion New York Giants against the Boston Beaneaters - teams that accounted for 10 Hall of Famers and three players that spearheaded the player revolt. The American Association race was just as exciting and even more controversial, as team presidents Chris Von der Ahe of the St. Louis Browns and Charles H. Byrne of the Brooklyn Bridegrooms hated each other passionately and Von der Ahe often clashed with his own players.

Yankee fan? Red Sox fan? Dodger fan? Do you think you know everything about baseball from the Black Sox to the White Sox? Then test yourself . Every era of is represented from Cap Anson to Mike Trout, Cy Young to Clayton Kershaw, Ty Cobb to Jose Altuve, Babe Ruth to Giancarlo Stanton. Match wits with the father of baseball trivia, David Nemec, a ten-time national champion as he presents more than 200 baseball stumpers that are artfully designed to test the depth of the reader's knowledge about the game since 1871, including. Who is the most recent major leaguer to compile 100 or more hits, 20 or more complete games, and 20 or more decisions in the same season? No, the answer is not who you think! Who is the only pitcher to hurl a minimum of 5,000 career innings and surrender fewer hits per 9 innings than Walter Johnson? What team had a record of 52-62 when the strike shut down the 1994 season but was on track to qualify for postseason play with the lowest winning percentage ever by a division or league first-place finisher? Incredible Baseball Trivia is the ultimate test for knowledgeable baseball fans!

Completely updated and expanded through the 2019 baseball season! In a game that has been our national pastime since the 1850s, there have been countless changes, additions and adaptations to the rules of baseball. But while the sport has altered considerably in recent years, its essence is still deeply rooted in its early history. Completely revised and updated through the 2019 baseball season, David Nemec has brought back into print his renowned book The Official Rules of Baseball Illustrated. Along with providing a thorough investigation into the rules of the game and how they came to be, Nemec explains the reasoning behind many of the modifications, both large and small, and in so doing furnishes numerous examples of the specific instances that led to a particular rule being created afresh, rewritten or excised from the rule book entirely. Whether we're talking about the uproarious "Pine Tar Game," harrowing home plate collisions, or the constant fine tuning through the years to maintain an equilibrium between hitting and pitching, fans of all ages are given a comprehensive handbook of the pivotal incidents that shaped the game as we know it today. But The Official Rules of Baseball Illustrated is much more than a textbook on the rules. It is rich with illustrative anecdotes throughout the game's long history that feature many of baseball's most famous players, umpires and teams as well as some of its most unsung. With photographs that help bring to life some of the movers and shakers in the ways the game has evolved over time, all fans of the sport will welcome adding this book to their libraries. As The Glory of Their Times author Lawrence S. Ritter said, "This is one of the most entertaining baseball books I have read in a very long time. Any baseball fan, young or old, will find it fun..."

The author of the internationally acclaimed The Systems of M.R. Shurnas, novelist and baseball historian David Nemec expands his reputation as a wide-ranging architect of coming-of-age novels (Remember Me to My Father: Robert D. Reed), erotic whodunits (Mad Blood: The Dial Press) and historical baseball tales (Early Dreams: Pocol Press) with the haunting story of Paul Raber, destined to replay forever his mental pictures of events from over thirty years earlier when he is everlastingly drawn to Seena Schain, a beautiful married poet he first encounters when she gives a reading at the prison where he is incarcerated. Told in Raber's often chillingly honest voice, The Picture Maker becomes progressively more spellbinding as each new layer of his torrid love affair with the mercurial Seena is unpeeled. Nemec's vivid sense of eroticism and his deep psychological understanding of his characters provide an unforgettable portrait of two star crossed lovers caught in a deadly maelstrom when they come to separate recognitions that they are both inescapably enmeshed in the "Cold Case" murder of a young girl.

This chronologically organised book is the first to provide comprehensive coverage of forfeits (Part I) and successful protests (Part II) of major league baseball games, educating the reader on the rules and prevailing styles of play at the time that each of the games was played. In addition to the date, location, and source information, authors Nemec and Miklich provide capsule biographies of many of the principal characters involved (including, for instance, the obscure one-game umpire who perpetrated the first forfeited game in major league history in 1871). The last forfeited or successfully protested game having occurred nearly twenty years ago, the book will almost certainly remain the definitive work on the subject.

The author of 38 baseball books and seven novels, including the internationally acclaimed The Systems of M.R. Shurnas, David Nemec adds to his reputation as a writer of erotic whodunits (Bright Lights Dark Rooms: Doubleday), (Mad Blood: The Dial Press) with a graphic tale set in today's Manhattan of a serial killer with a grotesquely comic flair that will both challenge and shock thinking readers. As in Stonesifer, Nemec's most famous serial killer novel, Who's Dicing the Daughters of Pan? is a total reexamination of the mystery and thriller genre. The book forces us to address uncomfortable questions. Who is its hero? Who is its real villain? Nemec's rapier wit, many unexpected plot twists and deep psychological understanding of what are truly the most heinous crimes of our world make us wonder whether we even dare enter into an intimate relationship in these times. His answer is yes, but not the yes that most of us may want to hear. Bright Lights, Dark Rooms "I loved it--I read it in one afternoon." -Ken Follett Mad Blood "Nemec, a former New York state parole officer, has woven plot, characters, action and wry humor into a first-rate whodunit." -Library Journal Stonesifer "Nemec demonstrates that the mystery's key elements--guilt, uncertainty and the need to eliminate the latter by establishing the former--are really the building blocks of our inner lives." -George Blecher, author of Other People Exist The Systems of M.R. Shurnas ..".an extraordinary exploration of human nature in our time..." --Carol Stack, author of Call to Home and All Our Kin