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Baseball's LOST Tradition: Two Eight-Team Leagues

Baseball's LOST Tradition: Two Eight-Team Leagues

Bob Costas
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“Baseball’s Lost Tradition is a very interesting concept. I was unaware of the differences between the AL and NL expansion drafts of ’61 and ‘ 62; and found that to be of particularly interest. Of course 1961 was the first 162 game season, and that, along with the Yankee link between Maris, Mantle, and the game’s greatest figure, Babe Ruth, accounts for all the commotion at the time. I found this book to be both interesting and well considered.”- Bob Costas, sportscaster and sports talk show host

Baseball's LOST Tradition - The 1961 - 1962 The Untold Story of Baseball’s First Self-imposed Expansion  is a chronological history of the turmoil and consequences involved in baseball’s first self-imposed expansion for the 1961 and 1962 seasons - the problems encountered in forming two ten-team leagues, and the struggles players faced as Major League Baseball replaced the traditional two eight-team leagues. Author Eric Thompson reveals obscure facts regarding baseball’s first self-imposed expansion.

For These questions and many more are answered in  Baseball's LOST Tradition - The 1961 - 1962 The Untold Story of Baseball’s First Self-imposed Expansion .

In the second half of the book Thompson moves beyond the facts and weaves a compelling story with two eight-team leagues playing a traditional 154-game schedule in the fictional Adirondack Valley League. In the style of “The Natural” and “A League of Their Own” Thompson weaves facts with fiction and presents player transactions and plausible, detailed statistics are presented for the 1961 and 1962 seasons as if expansion had never taken place.
Language
English
Pages
144
Format
Paperback
Release
June 22, 2012
ISBN 13
9781938499043

Baseball's LOST Tradition: Two Eight-Team Leagues

Bob Costas
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
“Baseball’s Lost Tradition is a very interesting concept. I was unaware of the differences between the AL and NL expansion drafts of ’61 and ‘ 62; and found that to be of particularly interest. Of course 1961 was the first 162 game season, and that, along with the Yankee link between Maris, Mantle, and the game’s greatest figure, Babe Ruth, accounts for all the commotion at the time. I found this book to be both interesting and well considered.”- Bob Costas, sportscaster and sports talk show host

Baseball's LOST Tradition - The 1961 - 1962 The Untold Story of Baseball’s First Self-imposed Expansion  is a chronological history of the turmoil and consequences involved in baseball’s first self-imposed expansion for the 1961 and 1962 seasons - the problems encountered in forming two ten-team leagues, and the struggles players faced as Major League Baseball replaced the traditional two eight-team leagues. Author Eric Thompson reveals obscure facts regarding baseball’s first self-imposed expansion.

For These questions and many more are answered in  Baseball's LOST Tradition - The 1961 - 1962 The Untold Story of Baseball’s First Self-imposed Expansion .

In the second half of the book Thompson moves beyond the facts and weaves a compelling story with two eight-team leagues playing a traditional 154-game schedule in the fictional Adirondack Valley League. In the style of “The Natural” and “A League of Their Own” Thompson weaves facts with fiction and presents player transactions and plausible, detailed statistics are presented for the 1961 and 1962 seasons as if expansion had never taken place.
Language
English
Pages
144
Format
Paperback
Release
June 22, 2012
ISBN 13
9781938499043

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