Full Description
Addie Joss (1880-1911) mowed down batters for the Cleveland Broncos/Naps from 1902 to 1910 before his career was cut short by his tragic death from tubercular meningitis in 1911. With a career ERA of 1.89 and two no-hitters, Joss earned Hall of Fame election despite a career that lasted less than ten years, the only player to do so. In the off-season, Joss also excelled as a sportswriter for the Toledo News-Bee and the Cleveland Press, filling the empty winter months penning stories about the game he knew firsthand. This collection of Joss's newspaper columns and World Series reports is a treasury of the deadball era with intimate first-person observations of the game and its players from the first decade of the American League. Informative annotations, archival photographs, and a brief biography complete the work.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments viii
Preface
A Brief Biography xvii
1. "I Have Not Had Better Friends": Players, Great Players and All the Rest
2. "The Sporting Editor": Baseball Humor
3. "The Boys Played Grandly": Greatest Games and Plays
4. Of Fanatics, Kranks and Bugs: The Fans
5. "Another Remarkable Instance": The Inside Game
6. Of Spiders and Colonels: The Nineteenth-Century Game
7. "Is the American League a Minor League?": World Series Reports
8. "I Should Suggest": Views from Toledo
Appendix: Contributions by Joss to Other Newspapers and Periodicals
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
