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- Title
The Dismantling of the National League's First Dynasty.
- Authors
Ball, David; Nemec, David
- Abstract
In a book begun before his untimely death in 2011, 19th century baseball historian David Ball set out to track the painstaking evolution of the present-day rules and practices regarding player movement from one team to another. David's legacy did not contain an introduction to his book or notes explaining its proposed scope, but we believe David planned to carry his work only to the conclusion of the 19th century. Among his more fully developed sections is the two-part story of the dismantling of the 1880-1886 Chicago White Stockings--not only the National League's most successful team at that time but also baseball's most cohesive one. In Phase I, two of the four players Spalding dispensed to other teams had been valued members of his club since 1879 and a third, Mike "King" Kelly, had joined Chicago in 1880.
- Subjects
BALL, David; BASEBALL; BASEBALL players; BASEBALL teams; KELLY, Mike
- Publication
Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, 2014, Vol 8, p104
- ISSN
1934-2802
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3172/BB.8.104