Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

And the Skipper Bats Cleanup: A History of Baseball Player-Manager, with 42 Biographies of Men Who Filled the Dual Role

4/5 ( ratings)

At least as far back as 1842 through about the late 1930s and mid-1940s, before baseball became commercialized and teams were able to hire one man to manage the entire team, it was not uncommon for one person to fill the roles of player and manager simultaneously. Often, the strongest, brightest, or best player--or sometimes the person who owned the playing equipment--directed his teammates. Forty-two of those men who were both players and managers at the same time are profiled in this work. The book leads off with chapters describing what it was like to fill the dual role and how it came about. Then, chapters are devoted to such men as Cap Anson, Connie Mack, Charles Comiskey, John McGraw, Mickey Cochrane, Dave Bancroft, Ty Cobb, Mel Ott, Joe Cronin, and Pete Rose, just to name a few.

Language: English

Pages: 264

Format: Paperback

Publisher: McFarland & Company

Release: April 08, 2002

ISBN: 0786412283

ISBN 13: 9780786412280

And the Skipper Bats Cleanup: A History of Baseball Player-Manager, with 42 Biographies of Men Who Filled the Dual Role

4/5 ( ratings)

At least as far back as 1842 through about the late 1930s and mid-1940s, before baseball became commercialized and teams were able to hire one man to manage the entire team, it was not uncommon for one person to fill the roles of player and manager simultaneously. Often, the strongest, brightest, or best player--or sometimes the person who owned the playing equipment--directed his teammates. Forty-two of those men who were both players and managers at the same time are profiled in this work. The book leads off with chapters describing what it was like to fill the dual role and how it came about. Then, chapters are devoted to such men as Cap Anson, Connie Mack, Charles Comiskey, John McGraw, Mickey Cochrane, Dave Bancroft, Ty Cobb, Mel Ott, Joe Cronin, and Pete Rose, just to name a few.

Language: English

Pages: 264

Format: Paperback

Publisher: McFarland & Company

Release: April 08, 2002

ISBN: 0786412283

ISBN 13: 9780786412280

More books from Fred Stein

Mel Ott: The Little Giant of Baseball

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Paris New York

5th Ave.

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Paris New York

3.5/5 ( ratings)

World Celebrities in 90 Photographic Portraits

3.5/5 ( ratings)

A History of the Baseball Fan

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Costs of Butterfat Sampling and Testing Programs (Classic Reprint)

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?