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- Title
Searching for James Creighton.
- Authors
Gilbert, Thomas W.
- Abstract
Brooklyn's James Creighton became the first national baseball star and changed the game in the late 1850s and early 1860s with his dominant fast pitching, but he remains a mysterious figure. Using new research into Creighton's family and life, this paper examines the question of who Jim Creighton was as a person and finds that a fuller understanding of the man, his relationships, and his circumstances sheds new light both on his baseball career and on how amateurera clubs like the Excelsiors and Atlantics developed playing talent in innovative ways. It analyzes the circumstantial case that Creighton was illegally paid under the table to play for the Excelsiors, considers when and how this was done, and finds a surprise or two in his genealogy.
- Subjects
CREIGHTON, James; BASEBALL; BASEBALL players; BASEBALL teams; PITCHERS (Baseball)
- Publication
Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, 2014, Vol 8, p17
- ISSN
1934-2802
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3172/BB.8.17