{"product_id":"2940016018676","title":"Baseball in the District \"Renaissance\" 1877 to 1883","description":"This is a comprehensive, four hundred page history of Baseball in the District. It covers the years from 1877 to 1883. We have revised this book in order to fully document the seasons from 1877 to 1879. We could not include the 1879 season without including the 1877 and 1878 seasons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome time back Karen purchased the history of the baseball in the District by Shirley Povich. More than nay publican this is what led us to do our series of books. In many ways the period from 1877 to 1880 is a major transition point in the District’s interest in baseball, the period that the Povich book ignored. Here is what he writes, “Baseball in Washington during the next decade was decadent. At least the town had no big league pretensions. The fans were overfed with the futility of Washington teams trying to compete in the National Association, and the city lapsed into a bush town of baseball?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe use of the word decadent is peculiar to say the least. As defined by Webster, “marked by decay or decline,” based on our research the period was anything but. It is an obvious misstatement that makes you wonder why it was even written. If anything it was a period of rebirth. Baseball was back and crowds of 10,000 testified to its popularity. Overfed with the futility of trying to compete in the National Association makes even less sense. Washington was cheated out of a championship by an act of skullduggery and won the title in 1880. In fact the 1880 team would long be remembered at the time as one of the best ever to play for the District.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf the powers that be in the either major league had allowed the Nationals Baseball Club of Washington to enter the city might have a heritage resembling that of St. Louis or Chicago. Instead the League turned its back on the Nation’s Capital, a common thread in the cities baseball history. Certainly the popularity of the game was there and the city had a record of producing talent for the majors. But it was not to be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere have been some minor additions the text as well in order to flesh out some of the information. All non-baseball information is in italics. They are used here to give you a frame of reference for the period. \u003cbr\u003eBaseball in the District\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1869   Rise of the Olympics\u003cbr\u003e1875   Twilight\u003cbr\u003e1877 to 1883  Renaissance\u003cbr\u003e1884   The Two Teams\u003cbr\u003e1885   The Amazing Nationals\u003cbr\u003e1886   A League City\u003cbr\u003e1887   Trials and Tribulations\u003cbr\u003e1888   The Last Hurrah\u003cbr\u003e1889   Ward Sold\u003cbr\u003e1890    The Dark Ages “Hewitt’s Nine”\u003cbr\u003e1891   The Dark Ages “Scanlon’s Nine”\u003cbr\u003e1892   Enter the Wagners\u003cbr\u003e1893   The Cranks Rebel\u003cbr\u003e1894   A Bad Team\u003cbr\u003e1895   The Agony of Defeat\u003cbr\u003e1896   Scrappy Bill\u003cbr\u003e1897   Tom Brown’s Team\u003cbr\u003e1898   War!\u003cbr\u003e1899   End of an Era\u003cbr\u003e1900 to 1904  An Orphan in an Upstart League\u003cbr\u003e1918   Uncle Sam’s Game\u003cbr\u003e   Baseball Memories, Tales and Anecdote’s \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBaseball has brought Karen and I a great deal of joy, my nephew has captured these thoughts in his entertaining forward. We hope you enjoy the book.","brand":"Kevin and Karen Flynn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074328412400,"sku":"2940016018676","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016018676_p0.jpg?v=1763627465","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016018676","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}