The Irish in Baseball: An Early History

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Professional baseball took root in The usa within the 1860s all the way through the similar years that the sons of the primary wave of Irish famine refugees started to achieve adulthood, and the Irish quickly demonstrated a special affinity for baseball. It is a survey of the large contribution of the Irish to the American pastime and the ways wherein Irish immigrants and baseball came of age together. Chapters cover Irish immigrants in Boston; the Chicago White Stockings; the Shamrocks, Trojans and Giants; Charlie Comiskey; Patsy Tebeau and the Hibernian Spiders; Ned Hanlon and the Orioles; Hugh Duffy and Tommy McCarthy, the “Heavenly Twins”; umpires; John McGraw; “Wild Bill” Donovan, Patrick Joseph “Whiskey Face” Moran, and Connie Mack; the Red Sox and the Royal Rooters; and more.

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