The Hall Ball

One Fan's Journey to Unite Cooperstown Immortals with a Single Baseball

Ralph Carhart (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

263 Seiten

2020
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7964-8 (ISBN)

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Rescued in 2010 from the small creek that runs next to Doubleday Field in Cooperstown, a simple baseball turned into an epic quest. Part travelogue, part baseball history, part photo journal, this book tells the full story for the first time. The narratives that accompany the odyssey are as funny and moving as any in the history of the game.

Rescued in 2010 from the small creek that runs next to Doubleday Field in Cooperstown, New York, a simple baseball launched an epic quest that spanned the United States and beyond. For eight years, "The Hall Ball" went on a journey to have its picture taken with every member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, both living and deceased. The goal? To enshrine the first crowd-sourced artifact ever donated to the Hall.

Part travelogue, part baseball history, part photo journal, this book tells the full story for the first time. The narratives that accompany the ball's odyssey are as funny and moving as any in the history of the game.

Ralph Carhart is a Brooklyn-based theatre director and manager, as well as a baseball historian. Active in the Society For American Baseball Research (SABR), he has contributed to four volumes of player biographies published by SABR and is the head of their 19th Century Baseball Grave Marker Project.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword by John Thorn

Introduction

Prologue

Where Our Story (and the Game) Began ◆ New York

Springtime Home ◆ Florida

The Playground ◆ New Jersey

A Tale of Two Cities (and the Places In-Between) ◆

Pennsylvania

The Land of Our Irish Founders ◆ Massachusetts

Day Trip ◆ Connecticut

The Birth of the Big Leagues ◆ Illinois

Capital Heroes ◆ Maryland

The Most Sacred Ground of All ◆ Virginia

The Living Members ◆ I

Groundbreakers ◆ Ohio

Hoosier Hopes ◆ Indiana

Unlikely Allies ◆ Kentucky

Between pages 98 and 99 are 8 color plates

containing 16 photographs

Hack ◆ West Virginia

The Briefest Glory ◆ Delaware

Minor League Mecca ◆ North Carolina

Lessons Learned ◆ Georgia

Sol White and the Negro Leagues Baseball Grave

Marker Project

The Living Members ◆ II

Unexpected Connection ◆ Texas

Meeting Friends and Family ◆ Michigan

So Many Brewers ◆ Wisconsin

A Forbidden Land ◆ Cuba

Fire and Ice ◆ Arizona

The Longest Road Trip ◆ California

Hometown Legend ◆ Idaho

The Farthest Corner ◆ Washington

The Living Members ◆ III

Tickets, Both Meal and Traffic ◆ Oklahoma

For the Love of It ◆ Kansas

The Truth About Pete ◆ Nebraska

The Home of the Negro Leagues ◆ Missouri

Finding Cristóbal

Two Locals and a Louisiana Yankee ◆ Arkansas

Blessed Mobile ◆ Alabama

A Pair of Pitchers ◆ Mississippi

Let the Good Times Roll ◆ Louisiana

The Symbolic Ones

Paradise ◆ Hawaii

So Much for Symbolism

The Living Members ◆ IV

The White Whales, the Hall of Fame, and the Baseball

Reliquary

A Eulogy: April 17, 2017

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.02.2020
Zusatzinfo	323 photos (16 in color), index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	490 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
ISBN-10	1-4766-7964-9 / 1476679649
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-7964-8 / 9781476679648
Zustand	Neuware