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Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated
The Major League
Pennant Races of 1916
"The Most Maddening Baseball Melee in History"
By Paul G. Zinn and John G. Zinn
Baseball at its best is a combination of chess
match and gladiatorial combat, waged over a long
season but turning on split-second decisions and
physical instincts.
The 1916 season encompassed the drama that made the sport the national pastime: tight pennant races, multiple contenders, record-breaking performances, and controversy, both on and off the field. Ten of the 16 teams battled for first place, four pitchers started and won both games of a doubleheader, Babe Ruth pitched on Opening Day, and players from the Federal League became the sport’s first free agents.
Features full rosters, player biographies, statistics, photographs and an appendix of the sportswriters who chronicled the season.
The 1916 season encompassed the drama that made the sport the national pastime: tight pennant races, multiple contenders, record-breaking performances, and controversy, both on and off the field. Ten of the 16 teams battled for first place, four pitchers started and won both games of a doubleheader, Babe Ruth pitched on Opening Day, and players from the Federal League became the sport’s first free agents.
Features full rosters, player biographies, statistics, photographs and an appendix of the sportswriters who chronicled the season.
About the Book:
BREAKING NEWS
- John Zinn has contributed to "New Jersey Goes to
War" - a book in commemoration of the
Sesquicentennial of the Civil War that features
biographies of 150 New Jerseyans of the era, famous
and obscure, whose lives were affected by the
conflict and events surrounding it.
Read more about
the book here.