Level playing fields : how the groundskeeping Murphy brothers shaped baseball /
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| Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2007.
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=184882 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the dirt beneath the fingernails
- Invisible men
- The pursuit of pleasures under difficulties
- Inside baseball
- Who'll stop the rain?
- A diamond situated in a river bottom
- Tom Murphy's crime
- Return to exposition park
- No suitable ground on the island
- John Murphy of the polo grounds
- Marlin Springs
- The later years
- The Murphys' legacy
- Epilogue
- Afterword: cold cases
- Notes
- Selected bibliography
- Index.