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Author_John Shiffert
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- ISBN 9780786427956
- Weight: 522g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 25 Oct 2006
- Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This work starts with the formation of the first baseball club in America, the Olympic Town Ball Club, and concludes with the final year of the National League's monopoly. Also included: the early Philadelphia club teams, including the first great African-American team, the Pythians; Philadelphia's part in the National Association of Base Ball Players; and the golden days of the national champion Philadelphia Athletic Club from 1860 through the National Association years.
SABR member John Shiffert is director of university relations at Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia. A Philadelphia native, he lives in Newnan, Georgia.
