Rhode Island Baseball: The Early Years (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781540218865)

Woonsocket native Gabby Hartnett set the world record by catching a baseball thrown from a blimp eight hundred feet above him. Then he did it again. Rhode Island Baseball possesses the same knack for astonishing you time after time with stories of baseball legends you thought you knew (like Nap Lajoie) and teams you might never have heard of (like the OSRC: Orcutt's Sure Rheumatism Cure). As you slide back into an era when men and women played professional ball barehanded and a rabbit hole could change a game, you will discover how large a role America's smallest state played in the nation's favorite pastime.

Author: Rick Harris
ISBN-10: 1540218864
ISBN-13: 9781540218865
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2008
Pages: 178
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d